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List of contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Transcriptions
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Genesis, Development, and Closure of the Darülfünun
- 1. New Pursuits in Education, Orientation to the Occident
- 2. The First Attempt: Enlightening the People
- 3. The Second Attempt: Darülfünun-I Osmani "Ottoman University"
- 4. The third Attempt: Darülfünun-I Sultani "Sultanic University"
- 5. The Successful Commencement 1900
- 6. The War Years: 1914-1918 and the German Influence
- 7. The Armistice Years and the Pre-Republican Period
- 8. Darülfünun after the Proclamation of the Republic
- 9. Ottoman Darülfünun's Downfall and the Birth of the Turkish University
- Part II: Transforming of Ethos and Developing New Norms and Institutions
- 1. From Traditional to Modern in Education
- 2. Legal Identity and Autonomy
- 3. Financing the Darülfünun
- 4. The Evolution of Modern Scholarly Literature and Terminology
- 5. The Birth and Evolution of the Concept and Tradition of Academic Research
- Part III: The Legacy of Darülfünun
- 1. Spread of University Education in the Provinces
- 2. Impact of the Darülfünun Outside the Ottoman Realm
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Institutional Topography of the Darülfünun (1900-1933)
- Tables And Graphs
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
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.
Summary
The book examines the founding of a western institution, a university, in the Ottoman Empire, a cultural environment wholly different from that of its place of origin in Western Europe.
