"Science," "Religion," and "Science-and-Religion" in the Late Ottoman Empire
Many intellectuals wrote texts on the relations between Islam and science in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. These texts not only addressed the massive social and cultural changes the Empire was going through, but responded to European authors' claims about the extent to which Islam was...
| Subtitles: | THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN EUROPE |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
[2019]
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Zygon
Year: 2019, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 1050-1066 |
| Further subjects: | B
Islam
B Science B Qur'an B Secularism |
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| Summary: | Many intellectuals wrote texts on the relations between Islam and science in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. These texts not only addressed the massive social and cultural changes the Empire was going through, but responded to European authors' claims about the extent to which Islam was compatible with the modern world. Focusing on several texts written in the second half of the nineteenth century by the influential Muslim Ottoman authors Namik Kemal, Ahmed Midhat, and Semseddin Sami, this article shows the influence of these exigencies on arguments on Islam and science. In order to represent Islam as a respectable religion in harmony with science, these intellectuals defined a "pure Islam" that was a set of basic principles that could be found in the Qur'an. Rather than an embedded way of life, Islam in these texts was an objectified, delimitable entity that could be imagined as having relations with other entities, such as science. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12563 |