Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Edición de la obra Learned Patriots
| Autor | M. Alper Yalçinkaya |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press |
| Fecha de publicación | Feb 13, 2015 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 304 |
| Formato | hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780226184203 |
| ISBN-10 | 022618420X |
| OCLC | 879538900 |
| LCCN | 2014017518 |
| Número de Cutter | Y16l |
Like many other states, the 19th century was a period of coming to grips with the growing domination of the world by the 'Great Powers' for the Ottoman Empire. Many Muslim Ottoman elites attributed European 'ascendance' to the new sciences that had developed in Europe, and a long and multi-dimensional debate on the nature, benefits, and potential dangers of science ensued. This analysis of this debate is not based on assumptions characteristic of studies on modernisation and Westernisation, arguing that for Muslim Ottomans the debate on science was in essence a debate on the representatives of science.