Scientiae 2025: Istanbul, 16-19 September, Annual Conference

Session

Round Table - Translation of Scientific Texts into Ottoman Turkish in the Early Modern Era

16 Sept 2025, 14:30

MAIN HALL (Kurul Odası) (Istanbul University Faculty of Letters)

Conveners

Round Table - Translation of Scientific Texts into Ottoman Turkish in the Early Modern Era

• Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (Professor Emeritus of History of Science, Honorary President of the Turkish Society for the History of Science)
• Kaan Üçsu (Istanbul University)
• Ahmet Tunç Şen (Columbia University)

Translation of Scientific Texts into Ottoman Turkish in the Early Modern Era

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (Professor Emeritus of History of Science, Honorary President of the Turkish Society for the History of Science), Kaan Üçsu (Istanbul University), Ahmet Tunç Şen (Columbia University)

16/09/2025, 14:30

Throughout their six-century-long history, the Ottomans experienced two movements of translation: the first started in their early days and continued during the classical age (1300-1600). The second movement occurred during the modernization era until the end of the Ottoman rule. Both movements were mainly conducted by Ottoman scholars relying on their knowledge of languages. In the classical...