# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abdulmejid-i
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:49:35.165Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/abdulmejid-i"
name: "Abdulmejid I"
slug: "abdulmejid-i"
description: "He took the throne at sixteen and immediately announced the most ambitious reform program the Ottoman Empire had ever seen — a sweeping attempt to modernize the state and bind its fracturing nationalities together through law rather than tradition. It didn't work, but the effort reordered an empire."
tagline: "31th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1839–1861)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1823-04-25"
deathDate: "1861-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           24.69699466666667
  currentAttention:     14.08468592039422
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Abdulmejid became the 31st sultan on 2 July 1839, succeeding his father Mahmud II, and on his first day issued the Tanzimat Edict — drafted by his Foreign Minister Mustafa Reshid Pasha — launching the Tanzimat era of reorganization. His approach was mild-mannered, giving the Sublime Porte room to pursue reform projects aimed at integrating non-Muslims and non-Turks more fully into Ottoman society and encouraging Ottomanism to counter rising nationalist movements. He forged alliances with the United Kingdom and France, who fought beside the Ottomans in the Crimean War against Russia, and at the Congress of Paris on 30 March 1856 the empire was formally admitted to the Concert of Europe. Tuberculosis killed him suddenly on 25 June 1861 at thirty-eight, and his half-brother Abdul Aziz took the throne.