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Global Islamic Studies

Events

Oct

27

Lecture

Clash of Experts: Science and the Occult in the Ottoman Empire with A. Tunç Şen

Location:
Linderman Library, Room 200
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Who had the authority and expertise to predict the future in the past? And what did it mean to be an expert? These are the central questions I investigate in my book, Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600, which takes the Ottoman…