In:
Science in Context, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 12, No. 3 ( 1999), p. 435-468
Abstract:
The “raison d'être” of this paper is my dissatisfaction with current portrayals of the place and the fate of the so-called rational sciences in Muslim societies. I approach this issue from the perspectives of West European visitors to the Ottoman and Safavid Empires during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I show that these travelers encountered educated people capable of understanding and answering their visitors' scholarly questions in non-trivial ways. The travels and the ensuing encounters suggest that early modern Muslim societies and their institutions, their ways of producing knowledge, the types of their knowledge, and their material resources contributed important elements to various early modern West European approaches to gaining knowledge about nature, history, and politics.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0269-8897
,
1474-0664
DOI:
10.1017/S0269889700003525
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1999
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2084819-5
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284093-5
SSG:
11
SSG:
5,1
