Nil Ö. Palabıyık, "Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544-1669 "
English | ISBN: 0367359782 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 18 MB
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.