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B. Harun Küçük
University of Pennsylvania, History and Sociology of Science, Faculty Member
- Ottoman History, Sociology of Knowledge, History of Science, Renaissance Philosophy, History of Scholarship, Early Modern Science and Philosophy, and 58 moreHistory of the Book, Science and Religion, History, Cosmopolitanism, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, History of Classical Scholarship, History Of Science In Islam, History and Theology, Ernest Renan, Averroism, Eighteenth Century Radicalism, History of Philosophy, Orientalism, Postcolonial Studies, Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya, Promotion & tenure resources/outreach for teaching faculty, Malamatiyya, Ottoman Studies, Early modern Ottoman History, History and Sociology of Science, Islamic Studies, Eighteenth Century History, Ottoman Balkans, Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Intellectual History, Ottoman Historiography, Mediterranean Studies, Ottoman Empire, Islamic Philosophy, Middle East Studies, Astrology, Mediterranean, History of the Mediterranean, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Middle East History, Ottoman Turkish historical writing, Renaissance Humanism, Early Modern History, Middle East, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Ottoman Literature, Early Modern Intellectual History, Trade Routes, History of Political Thought, Prisoners of War, Imperial Russia, Historiography, Early Modern Political Thought, History and Classical tradition studies, History of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Ottoman Military History, History of Istanbul, Occult Sciences in Islam, Science and Technology Studies, Computer Networks, Databases, and Softwareedit
Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies, LIX (2022), 261-272
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This article is a programmatic statement advocating a materialist reading of early modern Ottoman science. I argue that a history of science that is sensitive to the material life of Ottoman subjects will help scholars cut through the... more
This article is a programmatic statement advocating a materialist reading of early modern Ottoman science. I argue that a history of science that is sensitive to the material life of Ottoman subjects will help scholars cut through the unwarranted vocabulary of " Islamic science, " " Westernization " or " Ottoman civilization. " Two mini studies substantiate the programmatic claims. The first study presents a preliminary reinterpretation of the earliest mention of Copernican astronomy in Turkish, dated 1662. The second study reveals the maritime and mercantile genealogy of the eighteenth-century Ottoman prayer compass. Keywords Scientific Revolution – Ottoman Empire – magnetism – astronomy – calendar – historical materialism
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“New Medicine and the Hikmet-i Tabiiyye Problematic in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul,” in Tzvi Langermann and Robert Morrison, eds. Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016; pp. 222-242.
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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... more
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.
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This is an essay on cosmopolitanism and the culture of learning in Ottoman Istanbul under Ahmed III. Here, I propose an alternative way -- a middle path between a sui generis Islamic enlightenment and an "alii generis" intellectual... more
This is an essay on cosmopolitanism and the culture of learning in Ottoman Istanbul under Ahmed III. Here, I propose an alternative way -- a middle path between a sui generis Islamic enlightenment and an "alii generis" intellectual westernization - to think about modernity in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire.
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Research Interests: Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Mentoring, History of Science, History of Scholarship, and 13 moreHistory and Theology, History Of Science In Islam, Ernest Renan, Averroism, Intersectionality, Orientalism, Work Life Balance, Faculty Diversity, History of Philosophy, Professional Women, Women and Minority In STEM Fields, Pipeline Issues, and Career Progression In Science and Engineering
14-17 January, 2022
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