LEADER 03772nam 2200673 450 001 9910812990003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4773-0360-X 024 7 $a10.7560/303597 035 $a(CKB)3710000000478592 035 $a(EBL)4397265 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001556110 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16181996 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001556110 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13319533 035 $a(PQKB)11767289 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397265 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11255350 035 $a(OCoLC)922325715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397265 035 $a(DE-B1597)587328 035 $a(OCoLC)1286807925 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477303603 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000478592 100 $a20160914h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScience among the Ottomans $ethe cultural creation and exchange of knowledge /$fMiri Shefer-Mossensohn 210 1$aAustin, [Texas] :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4773-0359-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tA Note on Transliteration -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Framing ?Knowledge? in the Ottoman Empire -- $t2. Where and How Does Learning Take Place? -- $t3. The Transfer of Knowledge to, from, and within the Ottoman Empire -- $t4. State in Science -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aScholars 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 accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and impoverished. In 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. 606 $aScience$zTurkey$xHistory 606 $aTechnology$zTurkey$xHistory 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects$zTurkey$xHistory 606 $aIslam and science$zTurkey$xHistory 606 $aScience and state$zTurkey$xHistory 607 $aTurkey$xHistory$yOttoman Empire, 1288-1918 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aTechnology$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aIslam and science$xHistory. 615 0$aScience and state$xHistory. 676 $a509.56/0903 700 $aShefer-Mossensohn$b Miri$f1971-$01648429 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812990003321 996 $aScience among the Ottomans$94115901 997 $aUNINA