Arabic into Turkish in the Seventeenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3343641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Harun Küçük (0000-0002-1231-4336, California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 320-325 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/698237 |
| OpenAlex | W2807543709 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Early modern Turkish was a miscellaneous language that borrowed not only words but also whole phrases and verses from Arabic and Persian. While the language was a miscellany, there nevertheless was considerable uniformity in the kinds of natural knowledge that made it to Turkish: almost everything pertained to a type of practice, like the making of drugs and almanacs, and there was almost nothing in the way of theory. While looking at translations often gives us a story about connection, Turkish translations from Arabic also point out a disjunction between the science done in the Arabic-speaking and the Turkish-speaking domains of the Ottoman Empire. The selection of the translations from Arabic in the seventeenth century points us to the governing value that made Turkish-language science so uniform: commonweal or nef’i-yi e’amm
Ancient history · Arabic · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Miscellany · Nothing · Ottoman empire · Persian · Political science · Politics · Statistics · Turkish · Value (mathematics · Classics · Families in Therapy and Culture · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Turkish Literature and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |