International Congress on Learning and Education in the Ottoman World. Istanbul, 12-15 April 1999. Proceedings

406 pp., in English

Contents:

• IHSANOGLU, Ekmeleddin / Modern Turkey and the Ottoman Legacy
• BADENAS, Pedro / The Byzantine Intellectual Elite at the Court of Mehmet Fatih: Adaptation and Identity
• BERGER, Albrecht / The Image of a city: İstanbul on early Western and Ottoman Pictures
• MURPHEY, Rhodes / Disaster Relief Practices in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: A Brief Overview of Organizational Aspects of Urban Renewal Projects Undertaken in the Aftermath of Catastrophic Fires
• ZORLU, Tuncay / The Medical Medrese of Süleymaniye
• AHUNBAY, Zeynep / The Architecture of Ottoman Primary Schools
• SAGDIC, Zafer / The Relationship between Mathematics and Architectural Design in Pre-Ottoman Architecture
• TEZCAN, Baki / Ethics as a Domain to Discuss the Political: Kınalızade Ali Efendi’s Ahlak-ı Alai
• BRENTJES, Sonja / On the Relation Between the Ottoman Empire and the West European Republic of Letters (17th-18th centuries)
• REICHMUTH, Stefan / Islamic Reformist Discourse in the Tulip Period (1718-30) Ibrahim Müteferriqa and hic Arguments for Printing
• AKSAN, Virginia A. / Enlightening the Ottomans: Tott & Mustafa III
• AL KHAYAT, M. Haytham / The Ottoman Medical Terminology
• BAŞARAN, Betül / American Schools and the development of Ottoman Educational Policies During the Hamidian Period: A Reinterpretation
• GADZO-KASUMOVIC / Education-Beginning and Development of the Ottoman-Islamic Literacy in the Bosnian Eyalet
• BLUMI, Isa / The Social Parameters of Identity: The Role of Education in Albanian Identity Formation
• KARABINOVA, Diana / A Late Attempt to Find an Integrative Approach Through Common Secular Education: Midhat Paşa as Governor of the Danube Province (1864-1868)
• OS, Nicole A. N. M. van / “A Nation whose women are Living in Ignorance…” : The Foundation of the Milli İnas Mektebi in Nişantaşı
• YILDIZ, Netice / Ottoman Culture and Art in Cyprus
• BARRERAS, Laura Alonso de las / Religious Communities in Cyprus under the Ottoman Rule
• DEGUILHEM, Randi / A Revolution in learning? The Islamic Contribution to the Ottoman State Schools: Examples from the Syrian Provinces
• ABU-HUSAYN, Abdul-Rahim / Education and learning in early Ottoman Paletsine: An Overview
• FARAH, Caesar E. / The Role of the Syro-Egyptians in the Cultural Renaissance
• SEDGWICK, Mark / The Rashidiyya in the Ottoman World: Personal and Impersonal Elements in Sufi Education
• KHOURY, Dina Rizk / Fragmented Loyalties in the Modern Age: Jamil Sidqi Al-Zahawi on Wahhabism, Constitutionalism and language
• YUSOFF, Kamaruzaman, Ottoman Egypt in the 17th Century according to the Unique MS, Zubdah Ikhtisar Tarikh Mısr Al-Mahrusah
• SURY, Salaheddin Hasan / Modern Education in Trablusgarb (Tripolitania) (1835-1911)
• HATHAWAY, Jane / The Iconography of the Sword Zülfikar in the Ottoman World (with special Reference to Egypt)
• MANSURNOOR, Iik A. / Major “Peripheries” of the Ottoman World: Learning Tradition in the Malay World with Special Reference to Links and Networks
• ALI-AHYAIE, Mashallah / A Case Study of the Islamic Lunar Calendar from the Late Ottoman Period (1907)