Learned Patriots
Subtitle: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Feb 13, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780226184203
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, and Society in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire