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

Session

Keynote Lecture: Is It Time to Abandon 'Islamic Science'? Genres, Languages, Centers and the Problem of Periodization in Light of Recent Scholarship

17 Sept 2025, 16:15

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

Conveners

Keynote Lecture: Is It Time to Abandon 'Islamic Science'? Genres, Languages, Centers and the Problem of Periodization in Light of Recent Scholarship

• Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania)

Is It Time to Abandon 'Islamic Science'? Genres, Languages, Centers and the Problem of Periodization in Light of Recent Scholarship

Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania)

17/09/2025, 16:15

A monolithic notion of Islamic science overlooks the shifting influence of intellectual centers, the true breadth of practices and motivations and, the diverse political and political-economic trajectories of Islamic empires. It also fails to capture the dynamics between Western and Islamic geographies. Although a sense of the Islamic world existed long before the nineteenth century, the...