1. 2005. 'Eternal enemy of Islam', The: Abdullah Cevdet and the Bahá'í religion. Necati Alkan. Cevdet, a member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, in 1922 published an article on the Bahá'ís, for which he was politically attacked. (Offsite.) Articles.
2. 2004-06-15. Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith. Necati Alkan. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá had contact with many of the reformers and modernist ideas in Turkey in the 1860s-1890s. This paper focuses on the "Young Turk" leader Abdullah Cevdet. Audio.
3. 2004. Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith, 1860s-1920s. Necati Alkan. The relationship between the Young Ottoman and Young Turk reform movements and the Bahá'ís from the 1860s onwards; the nature of these contacts and the impressions of the Young Ottomans and Young Turks of the Babis and Bahá'ís; the convergence of ideas. Articles.

1. 1922-00-00 — Abdullah Cevdet was one of the founding members of the Young Turk ‘Committee of Union and Progress’, who in 1922, caused considerable public commotion by publishing an article favourable to the Bahá'í religion in his journal İctihâd. He was prosecuted for attacking Islam and the prophet Mohammad by expressing his thoughts in favour of the Bahá'í faith, recommending it as a world religion to replace Islam, which he deemed to be backward. It is argued here, in the context of Cevdet's Weltanschauung, that he did not use ‘Baha'ism’ merely as a tool to educate the Muslims in line with his Positivist ideas but that he identified himself with this new religious creed. The Eternal enemy of Islam: Abdullah Cevdet and the Bahá'í religion by Necati Alkan.

   Bahá'u'lláh and Àbdu'l-Bahá had contact with many of the reformers and modernist ideas in Turkey even in the 1860s-1890s. This paper focuses on the "Young Turk" leader Abdullah Cevdet. This paper examines the relationship between the Young Ottoman and Young Turk reform movements and the Bahá'ís that was established probably from the time of Bahá'u'lláh’s exile to Istanbul and Edirne and certainly from 1868 with Bahá'u'lláh’s banishment to Palestine. The emphasis of this article is not the convergence of ideas but the nature of the contacts and the impressions of the Young Ottomans and Young Turks of the Babis and Bahá'ís. Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith, 1860s-1920s by Necati Alkan

   For more information on Cevdet see the Wikipedia entry.

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