I have long been fascinated by science in late Ottoman society. What first grabbed me was the sense that people living under Ottoman rule were thinking about science in a variety of contexts that we usually study in isolation. Science was supposed to..
Daniel Stolz
Daniel Stolz is the Kemal H. Karpat Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He researches and teaches the history of the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. His first book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 2018) shows how new astronomical practices enabled the growth of the modern Egyptian state, as well as the emergence of Islamic movements that emphasized uniform and precise observance of ritual duties. He is currently beginning research for a new book, which investigates the Ottoman state defaults of the 1870s in terms of financial knowledge production.