id: 06087455
dt: j
an: 2012e.00035
au: Abdeljaouad, Mahdi Mohamed
ti: Teaching European mathematics in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth
    and nineteenth centuries: between admiration and rejection.
so: ZDM 44, No. 4, 483-498 (2012).
py: 2012
pu: Springer, Heidelberg
la: EN
cc: A30
ut: teaching mathematics; Ottoman Turkey; Islamic mathematics; European
    mathematics; Egypt; Tunisia; eighteenth century; nineteenth century
ci: 
li: doi:10.1007/s11858-012-0381-6
ab: Summary: The purpose of this study is to examine the modernizing process in
    the teaching of mathematics in three countries that were part of the
    Ottoman Empire, namely Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia, during the eighteenth
    and nineteenth centuries. In each case, a permanent state of war and
    continued European pressures made the need of reforms of military
    structures a vital necessity for the preservation of the state. Some of
    the military reforms proposed, although they met with rejection and
    resulted in revolts and in the dismissal of most of their initiators,
    did sow wholesome seeds into the educational system which would be
    transformed first in Muhammad Ali’s Egypt, then in Mahmūd II’s
    Turkey and finally in Khayr al-Dīn’s Tunisia who introduced
    important and comprehensive reforms under which the teaching of modern
    mathematics played a non-negligible part. The second part outlines the
    transformations of the educational institutions and their role in the
    introduction of the new imported Western mathematics. Finally, we
    detail the type of mathematics taught into the newly founded military
    and engineering schools and insist on the efforts made by the Egyptians
    for translating into Arabic French textbooks.
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