Science among the Ottomans : The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge.

Intro -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration -- 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 -- 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 ʿilm -- 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/Vakıf -- 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 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jabartī as Ottoman Scientists -- Ottoman Patterns of Scientific Activity -- Ottoman Innovation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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