{"product_id":"science-among-the-ottomans-the-cultural-creation-and-exchange-of-knowledge-paperback-softback-9781477312216","title":"Science Among the Ottomans; The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477312216","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScience Among the Ottomans\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMiri Shefer-Mossensohn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477312216, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 October 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e262 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Timely...Shefer-Mossensohn consistently avoids the emphasis on technical development that long characterized the literature on science in Islamic contexts, limiting its readership to specialists...\u003ci\u003eScience among the Ottomans\u003c\/i\u003e opens an important conversation.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (H-Net Reviews) \u003cdiv\u003e\"By offering us a new synthesis that represents the current state of the field, Shefer-Mossensohn’s book addresses the perennial question of what happened to Islamic science and medicine after the Middle Ages. It offers a starting point for further discussions.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Early Science \u0026amp; Medicine) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eScience among the Ottomans\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable achievement…Shefer-Mossensohn has produced a landmark study with which many of us will train the next generation of historians of science.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Turkish Historical Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars 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. \u003ci\u003eScience among the Ottomans\u003c\/i\u003e challenges this widely accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and impoverished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first book on this topic in English in over sixty years, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn contends that Ottoman society and culture created a fertile environment that fostered diverse scientific activity. She demonstrates that the Ottomans excelled in adapting the inventions of others to their own needs and improving them. For example, in 1877, the Ottoman Empire boasted the seventh-longest electric telegraph system in the world; indeed, the Ottomans were among the era’s most advanced nations with regard to modern communication infrastructure. To substantiate her claims about science in the empire, Shefer-Mossensohn studies patterns of learning; state involvement in technological activities; and Turkish- and Arabic-speaking Ottomans who produced, consumed, and altered scientific practices. The results reveal Ottoman participation in science to have been a dynamic force that helped sustain the six-hundred-year empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on Transliteration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: What Is the History of Science? \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe History of Science and Technology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe History of Islamic Science and Technology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe History of Ottoman Science and Technology History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToward a History of Ottoman Scientific Experiences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Inventiveness: An Ottoman Lesson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Framing “\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge”\u003cbr\u003e in the Ottoman Empire \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Eurasian Matrix: The Multiple Cultural Sources of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ottoman Concept and Epistemology of Knowledge: The Term cIlm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClassification of Knowledge in Muslim Societies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmalgamation of Bodies of Knowledge in Muslim Societies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTensions due to Fusion of Bodies of Knowledge: The Dispute regarding the Status of Pre-Islamic Sciences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMediating Mechanisms of Reception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Where and How Does Learning Take Place? \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePedagogy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Educational Institutions and a New Type of Education in the Long Nineteenth Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Transfer of Knowledge to, from, and within the Ottoman Empire \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOttoman Literacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslations and Translators among the Ottoman Elite\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarginal Groups as Agents of Knowledge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Passage of Travelers and Knowledge to and from the Empire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. State in Science: On Empire, Power, Infrastructures, and Finance \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Patron and the Scholar: Intisap and Waqf\/Vakıf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience and Technology and the Ottoman State Infrastructure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience, State, and the State above It: The (Semi)Colonial Connection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Ottoman Science \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Teacher and a Student: MurtaḍÁ\u003cbr\u003e al-Zabīdī and cAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī as Ottoman Scientists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOttoman Patterns of Scientific Activity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOttoman Innovation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734462820632,"sku":"9781477312216","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/science-among-the-ottomans-the-cultural-creation-and-exchange-of-knowledge-paperback-softback-9781477312216","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}