Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
İNTERPRETATİONS OF HİSTORY, New York, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 07 Mayıs 1998, ss.1-50
ABSTRACT
The study is an attempt to understand the relation between the production of knowledge and sociopolitical changes in the Ottoman Empire from late 16th to early 19th centuries. The study traces the number of books and treatises that are produced in various academic disciplines in the Ottoman Empire based on the titles that are mentioned in Osmanli Muellifleri by Bursali Mehmet Tahir Efendi. The statistical graphics of the book production shows that there is a significant variation in book production. The study argues that this variation represents a dynamic intellectual interaction between Ottoman social formation and intellectual production. Books in certain fields gain momentum in a historical period that would suggest a strong correlation between the two. It shows a vivid intellectual answer to the changes in the realm of sociopolitical world of the Ottoman empire. Unlike those who argued about the intellectual stagnation and resulting intellectual decline in the Ottoman empire, this study argues that the knowledge production in the Ottoman empire was intellectually dynamic process and it adapted to changes that forces of Ottoman social formation brought into the realm of Ottoman historical experiences.