The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

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• ISBN 10:0190051558
• ISBN 13:9780190051556
• Author:Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

Following a string of military defeats at the end of the eighteenth century, Ottoman leaders realized that their classical traditions and institutions could not compete with Russia and the European states’ technological and economic superiority.One of a series of nineteenth-century reform initiatives was the creation of a European-style university called darülfünun. From the Arabic words dar, meaning “house,” and fünun, meaning “sciences,” the darülfünun would incorporate the western sciences into deeply entrenched academic traditions and institutions in an effort to bridge the gap with Europe. The completely new institution, distinct from the existing pre-modern medreses, was modeled after the French educational system and created an infrastructure for national universities in Turkey and some of the Arab-speaking provinces. It also influenced the establishment of universities in Iran and Afghanistan.

Table contents:

1 New Pursuits in Education, Orientation to the Occident

2 The First Attempt: Enlightening the People

3 The Second Attempt: Darülfünun-i Osmanî [Ottoman University]

4 The Third Attempt: Darülfünun-i Sultanî [Sultanic University]

5 The Successful Commencement 1900

6 The Second Constitutional Period

7 The War Years: 1914–1918 and the German Influence

8 The Armistice Years and the Pre-Republican Period

9 Darülfünun after the Proclamation of the Republic

10 Ottoman Darülfünun’s Downfall and the Birth of the Turkish Univer

11 Introductory Notes

12 Legal Identity and Autonomy

13 Financing the Darülfünun

14 The Evolution of Modern Scholarly Literature and Terminology

15 The Birth and Evolution of the Concept and Tradition of Academic Resea

16 Spread of University Education in the Provinces

17 Impact of the Darülfünun Outside the Ottoman Realm

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