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  • The House of Sciences. The First Modern University in the Muslim World. Oxford University Press, 2019. 296p. Hardback. An original contribution of this book is the detailed scholarly study of how a new Ottoman scientific language developed and its focus on the Ottoman administration which fashioned the new ethos that come to undergird its norms and institutions of the Empire. Given current events in Turkey, it should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the educational and cultural background of countries that were part of, or in close contact with, the Ottoman Empire. We cannot help asking, how sturdy are the structures of these new universities? The answer can perhaps be read between the lines of this useful and scholarly work. William R. Shea, Galileo Professor of History of Science at the University of Padua 01/04/2019 |a 04/04/2019 (Publisher's information). € 123.65 (New)  (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780190051556