For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationali...

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Main Author:	El-Rouayheb, Khaled 1970- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Subjects:	Geschichte 1600-1700 Geschichte Learning and scholarship / Turkey / History / 17th century Learning and scholarship / Africa, North / History / 17th century Muslim scholars / Turkey / History / 17th century Muslim scholars / Africa, North / History / 17th century Muslim philosophers / Turkey / History / 17th century Muslim philosophers / Africa, North / History / 17th century Geistesleben Islam Türkei Turkey / Intellectual life / 17th century Africa, North / Intellectual life / 17th century Osmanisches Reich Maghreb
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first sustained effort at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period. Examining the intellectual production of the ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries, and marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 399 pages)
ISBN:	9781107337657
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9781107337657