In an illuminating exchange, Charles Hirschkind and Alireza Doostdar debate the compulsory quality of modern scientific reasoning. Doostdar, in The…
Daniel A. Stolz
Daniel A. Stolz is the Kemal H. Karpat assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research investigates how Ottomans used both new and old kinds of technical expertise to transform their society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (2018) is available from Cambridge University Press.
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On continuity and rupture: A reply to Elshakry and Quadri
October 25, 2018
By pulling at different threads of the book’s argument, Elshakry and Quadri expose a basic tension between the book’s emphasis…