The first book on the topic in English in over sixty years, Science among the Ottomans contends that, contrary to the generally accepted belief that the Ottomans lost interest in science, science was a valued, dynamic, and sustaining force throughout the
The first book on the topic in English in over sixty years, Science among the Ottomans contends that, contrary to the generally accepted belief that the Ottomans lost interest in science, science was a valued, dynamic, and sustaining force throughout theHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
MIRI SHEFER-MOSSENSOHN is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. She is an Ottomanist, working on both the Arabic- and Turkish-speaking domains of the empire. Her interests lie with medicine and science as a social encounter between scholars and laypersons, patrons and clients, readers and artisans, and the state apparatus and the individual.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Preface 2. A Note on Transliteration 3. Introduction: What Is the History of Science? * The History of Science and Technology * The History of Islamic Science and Technology * The History of Ottoman Science and Technology History * Toward a History of Ottoman Scientific Experiences * On Inventiveness: An Ottoman Lesson 4. Chapter 1. Framing “Knowledge” in the Ottoman Empire * A Eurasian Matrix: The Multiple Cultural Sources of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire * The Ottoman Concept and Epistemology of Knowledge: The Term cIlm * Classification of Knowledge in Muslim Societies * Amalgamation of Bodies of Knowledge in Muslim Societies * Tensions due to Fusion of Bodies of Knowledge: The Dispute regarding the Status of Pre-Islamic Sciences * Mediating Mechanisms of Reception 5. Chapter 2. Where and How Does Learning Take Place? * Pedagogy * New Educational Institutions and a New Type of Education in the Long Nineteenth Century 6. Chapter 3. Transfer of Knowledge to, from, and within the Ottoman Empire * Ottoman Literacy * Translations and Translators among the Ottoman Elite * Marginal Groups as Agents of Knowledge * The Passage of Travelers and Knowledge to and from the Empire 7. Chapter 4. State in Science: On Empire, Power, Infrastructures, and Finance * The Patron and the Scholar: Intisap and Waqf/Vak f * Science and Technology and the Ottoman State Infrastructure * Science, State, and the State above It: The (Semi)Colonial Connection 8. Conclusion: Ottoman Science * A Teacher and a Student: Murtäá al-Zab d and cAbd al-Räm n al-Jabart as Ottoman Scientists * Ottoman Patterns of Scientific Activity * Ottoman Innovation 9. Notes 10. Bibliography 11. Index
1. Preface 2. A Note on Transliteration 3. Introduction: What Is the History of Science? * The History of Science and Technology * The History of Islamic Science and Technology * The History of Ottoman Science and Technology History * Toward a History of Ottoman Scientific Experiences * On Inventiveness: An Ottoman Lesson 4. Chapter 1. Framing “Knowledge” in the Ottoman Empire * A Eurasian Matrix: The Multiple Cultural Sources of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire * The Ottoman Concept and Epistemology of Knowledge: The Term cIlm * Classification of Knowledge in Muslim Societies * Amalgamation of Bodies of Knowledge in Muslim Societies * Tensions due to Fusion of Bodies of Knowledge: The Dispute regarding the Status of Pre-Islamic Sciences * Mediating Mechanisms of Reception 5. Chapter 2. Where and How Does Learning Take Place? * Pedagogy * New Educational Institutions and a New Type of Education in the Long Nineteenth Century 6. Chapter 3. Transfer of Knowledge to, from, and within the Ottoman Empire * Ottoman Literacy * Translations and Translators among the Ottoman Elite * Marginal Groups as Agents of Knowledge * The Passage of Travelers and Knowledge to and from the Empire 7. Chapter 4. State in Science: On Empire, Power, Infrastructures, and Finance * The Patron and the Scholar: Intisap and Waqf/Vak f * Science and Technology and the Ottoman State Infrastructure * Science, State, and the State above It: The (Semi)Colonial Connection 8. Conclusion: Ottoman Science * A Teacher and a Student: Murtäá al-Zab d and cAbd al-Räm n al-Jabart as Ottoman Scientists * Ottoman Patterns of Scientific Activity * Ottoman Innovation 9. Notes 10. Bibliography 11. Index
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