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Is there life outside earth?: Negotiating religious and scientific authority in late Ottoman periodicals

Asil, Ercüment. (MESA, 2020)

This paper rethinks the inflow of Western ideas into the Ottoman Empire through the metaphor of ‘cultural translation,’ which conceives of ‘translators’ as active ‘negotiators’ rather than simple transmitters. These ...
Rational theology in speculative science: Extraterrestrial life debates in the late Ottoman Empire

Asil, Ercüment. (Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung (GTOT), 2018)

By setting the earth into motion the Copernican revolution had opened a venue for the possibility of extraterrestrial life in other planets inasmuch as they were now “similar” to earth (principle of similarity). By the end ...
The Tanzimat novel in the service of science: On Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s American Doctors

Asil, Ercüment. (I.B. Tauris, 2020)

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when Ottomans started to syste1natically adopt European science and technology, they largely conceived of it as an addendum to their established body of traditional ...