The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World

ISBN-13: 9780190051556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

Recenzje

The House of Sciences is a notable contribution to the scholarship in English on the history and institutions of science in the nineteenth-century non-Western context.

O autorze

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is a Turkish scholar and diplomat. He was the founder and chair of the first Department of the History of Science in Turkey at the University of Istanbul and has taught at the universities of Ankara, Exeter, Istanbul, and Munich. He is the founder of the IRCICA, the Turkish Society for the History of Science, and the International Union of history and Philosophy of Science (2001-2005). His written works include Turks in Egypt and Their Cultural Legacy, Scientific Technology and Learning in the Ottoman Empire, and The Islamic World in the New Century. A member of the Turkish Parliament and the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe, Ihsanoglu was a candidate for president of the Republic of Turkey in 2014.