Science studies and early modern ottoman science

• Autores: B. Harun Küçük
• Localización: International Journal of Middle East Studies, ISSN-e 1471-6380, Vol. 47, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 584-587
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This short essay focuses on three issues: how science studies may facilitate the rapprochement between the philological study of scientific texts and Middle East history; how it may help us reconsider ambiguous if not “black-boxed” terms such as the “state,” “Islam,” and the “West”; and finally, how it may build thematic and theoretical bridges with other histories and geographies of science currently emerging from a more global, and not merely local, perspective