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Islamic intellectual history in the seventeenth century : scholarly currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb

El-Rouayheb, Khaled

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\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 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. / POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. / Turkey Intellectual life 17th century. / Africa, North Intellectual life 17th century.
• ISBN: 9781107042964

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