A. Tunc Sen: Forgotten Experts

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"Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. These individuals served the Ottoman court with their expertise in mathematical, astronomical, and astrological sciences, distinguishing themselves from other occult practitioners and esoteric specialists. While both prophecy and prognostication are attempts to map the terrain of the future, the astrologers' work did not claim spiritual weight as a prophecy, but relied instead on methods of prediction developed from data and patterns elaborated through technical and scientific writings. Drawing on extensive manuscript and archival records written in Ottoman Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, A. Tunðc ðSen writes a history of science, state formation, and bureaucracy within the overarching tale of Ottoman imperial formation and protocols. He invites readers to follow Ottoman court astrologers' fluctuating careers as practitioners of a contentious science, and shows how this class of learned individuals constructed their scientific authority despite numerous cultural, societal, and epistemic challenges. In understanding the expertise of court astrologers, we gain insight into the intricate social relations established and maintained between the men of knowledge and the men of rule, between expertise and statecraft, in the early modern Ottoman imperial context"--

Über den Autor

A. Tunç ¿en is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Note on Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Empire of Experts, Experts of Empire

1. Munajjims' Expertise

2. Persianate Foundations

3. Heavenly Patronage

4. Fortunes Turned

5. Occult Rivalries

Conclusion: Istanbul Observatory and the Aftermath

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781503642652
ISBN-10:	1503642658
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sen, A. Tunc
Auflage:	New
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	234 x 157 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	A. Tunc Sen
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.05.2025
Gewicht:	0,75 kg