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Silent Teachers - Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544-1669 (Hardcover)
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Silent Teachers - Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544-1669 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
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Silent Teachers considers for the first time the influence of
Ottoman scholarly practices and reference tools on oriental
learning in early modern Europe. Telling the story of oriental
studies through the annotations, study notes and correspondence of
European scholars, it demonstrates the central but often overlooked
role that Turkish-language manuscripts played in the achievements
of early orientalists. Dispersing the myths and misunderstandings
found in previous scholarship, the book offers a fresh history of
Turkish studies in Europe and new insights into how Renaissance
intellectuals studied Arabic and Persian through contemporaneous
Turkish sources. This story hardly has any dull moments: the reader
will encounter many larger-than-life figures, including an armchair
expert who turned his alleged captivity under the Ottomans into
bestselling books; a drunken dragoman who preferred enjoying the
fruits of the vine to his duties at the Sublime Porte; and a
curmudgeonly German physician whose pugnacious pamphlets led to the
erasure of his name from history. Taking its title from the
celebrated humanist Joseph Scaliger's comment that books from the
Muslim world are 'silent teachers' and need to be explained orally
to be understood, this study gives voice to the many and varied
Turkish-language books that circulated in early modern Europe and
proposes a paradigm-shift in our understanding of early modern
erudite culture.
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