Science among the Ottomans : the cultural creation and exchange of knowledge /

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Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
1288-1918
Science > Turkey > History.
Technology > Turkey > History.
Science > Social aspects > Turkey > History.
Islam and science > Turkey > History.
Science and state > Turkey > History.
SCIENCE > History.
HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Islam and science
Science
Science and state
Science > Social aspects
Technology
Naturwissenschaften
Wissenschaftstransfer
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Empire ottoman > Histoire.
Turkey
Osmanisches Reich
Türkei
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • I. 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 "Ilm"
  • 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
  • 2. Where and how does learning take place?
  • Pedagogy
  • New educational institutions and a new type of education in the long Nineteenth century
  • 3. The 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
  • 4. State in science: On empire, power, infrastructures, and finance
  • The patron and the scholar: Intisap and Waqf/Vakif
  • Science and technology and the Ottoman state infrastructure
  • Science, state, and the state above it: The (Semi)Colonial connection
  • Conclusion: Ottoman science
  • A teacher and a student: Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī and 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī as Ottoman scientists
  • Ottoman patterns of scientific activity
  • Ottoman innovation.

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