By Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
ISBN-10: 1477303596
ISBN-13: 9781477303597
ISBN-10: 1477312218
ISBN-13: 9781477312216
Scholars have lengthy inspiration that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval period, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically remoted, becoming bored in innovation and putting the empire on a course towards stagnation and decline. Science one of the Ottomans demanding situations this extensively accredited Western snapshot of the 19th- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and impoverished.
In the 1st ebook in this subject in English in over sixty years, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn contends that Ottoman society and tradition created a fertile surroundings that fostered various medical job. She demonstrates that the Ottomans excelled in adapting the innovations of others to their very own wishes and enhancing them. for instance, in 1877, the Ottoman Empire boasted the seventh-longest electrical telegraph approach on the earth; certainly, the Ottomans have been one of the era’s so much complicated international locations with reference to fashionable conversation infrastructure. to confirm her claims approximately technological know-how within the empire, Shefer-Mossensohn stories styles of studying; nation involvement in technological actions; and Turkish- and Arabic-speaking Ottomans who produced, fed on, and adjusted medical practices. the consequences exhibit Ottoman participation in technological know-how to were a dynamic strength that helped maintain the six-hundred-year empire.
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