An Idıosyncratıc Ottoman Alım Encounters European Scıence, Enlıghtenment And Modern Warfare: Şanizade Mehmed Ataullah Efendi (D. 1826) And Hıs Vesâyânâme-İ Seferiyye And Müfredât-I Külliyye Fî Sevâhili’l-Bahriyye

Tez İngilizce Sosyal Bilimler× Tarih×

Künye:

Yazarlar:

Ahmet Tarık Çaşkurlu

Ekle

Danışmanlar:

SURAIYA FAROQHI

Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2020

Yayın Yeri:

Seviye:

MASTER

Kurum:

Bölüm:

İçerik Dosyası:

Web adresi:

http://openaccess.ihu.edu.tr/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.12154/1645/Caskurlu.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Operatör:

Şafak Varol

Güncelleyen:

Ramazan Acun

Özet:

Şanizade Ataullah Efendi (d. 1826) was a traditionally trained alim/religious and
legal scholar. However, he was no prototypical member of the classical Ottoman
ilmiye corps. Thanks to his foresighted intellectual pursuit of contemporary
European learning enabled by his peerless mastery of European languages. He is best known as a pioneer of modern European medical knowledge among Ottoman
Muslim elites and as an official court historiographer/vakanüvis. His history covering the first dozen years of Sultan Mahmud II’s rule, Tarih-i Şanizade -a part of the
classical Ottoman historiographical tradition in many ways- was also unique with its critical socio-political analyses providing a window into the author’s mentality. In
this thesis however, I study the lesser known works of Şanizade in the domain of
military-engineering and its auxiliary disciplines, geography and mathematics. These were a product of the ‘technology’ policymaking of the Nizam-ı Cedid/New Order reformist cadres under Sultan Selim III in the first decade of the 19th century. Two specific translation works in manuscript form from this early career period of Şanizade when he was affiliated with the Imperial School of
Engineering/Mühendishane provide the main data for this thesis investigating how an Ottoman Islamic scholar regarded and retold what historiographically are defined as modern science-technology, warfare, and European politics. I first produce an explicated critical edition of Şanizade’s Vesayaname-i Seferiyye, a translation of the book General-Principia vom Kriege by the Prussian King Frederick II on warfare and logistics. Then, the thesis provides an annotated transcription of Şanizade’s book on naval geography and navigation, Müfredat-ı Külliyye fi Sevahili’l-Bahriyye, largely based on English geographer-cartographer John Hamilton Moore’s The New Practical Navigator.