[1] Accordingly, he had little formal education, instead pursuing his own studies and occasionally taking classes with private tutors, among them Abdülhak Hamid and Hacı Edhem Paşazâde Kadri Bey.

[4][5] After İbrahim Şinasi's death in 1871, his printing press for Tasvîr-i Efkâr was purchased by Mustafa Fazıl Pasha for the Young Ottomans, but it quickly passed into Ebüzziya's sole custody.

[1] In 1873, his participation in the staging of Namık Kemal's Vatan yahut Silistre and the associated political unrest led to his exile to Rhodes along with Ahmet Mithat Efendi.

[1][3] As Murad V's short-lived reign came to a close in August 1876, Ebüzziya became an active participant in the dramatic political changes of the era, most notably Abdul Hamid II's constitution.

[1][3] He quickly became a dominant publisher, including a popular series of almanacs, several volumes of essays by Ebüzziya and his friends modeled on French and German encyclopedias, and influential monographs like Namık Kemal's Osmanlı Tarihi (Ottoman History, in 1888), which spurred new efforts at censorship.

[1] With the reinstitution of the Ottoman Constitution, Ebüzziya returned to Istanbul and joined the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (Turkish: İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) to serve as a parliamentary representative for Antalya.

[1][3] In the Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition, historian Fevziye Abdullah that Ebüzziya Tevfik's most important legacy is "in his tireless work as a popularizer, journalist, and above all publisher and printer.