This article investigates the close relationship between geographical knowledge and imperial politics in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through an analysis of an anonymous portolan chart from 1652 and geographical accounts of Katip Çelebi, Ebu Bekir b. Behram el-Dimaşki and Osman b. Abdülmennan, it examines the circulation of ‘geography’ and ‘geographical knowledge’ in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In doing so, it aims to integrate the Ottoman Empire into the recently developing historical treatment of Enlightenment as a response to cross-border interaction and global integration. According to the traditional understanding, Ottoman involvement with modern science and technology did not begin until the nineteenth century when the Ottoman state enacted a series of reforms in education, economy, and military. This article aims to challenge this traditional understanding and argues that Ottoman ruling elites and scholars did indeed participate in intellectual discussions and political developments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The knowledge exchange between the Ottoman geographers and their European contemporaries during this period laid the foundations of what I call ‘the Ottoman Enlightenment.’ The works discussed in this article informed the Ottoman imperial court and literate urbanites of the changes in the spatial understanding of the world and of the universe while also helping them to reevaluate the role of the Ottoman Empire globally during a period typically regarded as the beginning of Ottoman decline.

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奥斯曼启蒙：17 和 18 世纪奥斯曼帝国的地理与政治

本文考察了 17 和 18 世纪奥斯曼帝国地理知识与帝国政治之间的密切关系。通过对 1652 年匿名波多兰图表的分析以及 Katip Çelebi、Ebu Bekir b. 的地理记录。Behram el-Dimaşki 和 Osman b. Abdülmennan，它考察了 17 和 18 世纪奥斯曼帝国“地理”和“地理知识”的流通。这样做的目的是将奥斯曼帝国融入最近发展起来的对启蒙运动的历史处理，作为对跨境互动和全球一体化的回应。按照传统的理解，奥斯曼帝国直到 19 世纪才开始涉足现代科学和技术，当时奥斯曼帝国在教育、经济和军事方面实施了一系列改革。本文旨在挑战这种传统理解，并论证奥斯曼统治精英和学者确实参与了 17 和 18 世纪的知识讨论和政治发展。这一时期奥斯曼地理学家与其同时代的欧洲人之间的知识交流奠定了我所谓的“奥斯曼启蒙运动”的基础。