Les janissaires, les mamelouks et les armes à feu

Fuess, Albrecht

doi:10.2143/turc.41.0.2049294

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“…By associating firearms with the opposition between Islamdom and Christendom, Ayalon perpetuated the false division between a Europe, which included Ottoman Turkey, that accepted the new technologies, and an Islamic world whose elite cultural codes prevented the development of the firearms industry. Ayalon perpetuated a myth that gave cultural causal reasons to the Mamluks' refusal to fight with firearms (Fuess, 2009, pp. 216–219).…”

Section: Islamic Backwardness—the Legacy Of Orientalism and Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following Ágoston, several scholars challenged the former assertion that Islamic states were unable to keep pace with the ‘West’ because of their cultural and religious conservatism, fanaticism and despotism. For example, Irwin, Fuess, and Hacker criticised the myths of the Mamluk's refusal to fight with firearms, refuting the culturalist argument developed by Ayalon (Fuess, 2009; Hacker, 2015; Irwin, 2004). The main achievements of this generation of scholars were to point out that there is no evidence that Islam inhibited the adaptation and innovations in new technology.…”

Section: From the Three Gunpowder Empires To The Islamic Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Migration and innovation in early modern Islamic societies. The case for firearms

Dewière

2023

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The objective of this article is to review the historiography of the relationship between migration and firearms technologies in the early modern Islamic World. By examining historiographical debates on the role of firearms in early modern Islamic societies, we will look at the place of migrants in the historical literature of firearms. During the colonial period, debates shifted from the alleged conservatism of Islamic societies regarding firearm technologies to their respective agencies in the diffusion of firearms in the early modern world. In this article, I will show that the historiography of firearm technologies in Islamdom exhibits a shift from essentialist arguments towards a history of technology transfers and the role of migrants in this process.

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Section: Islamic Backwardness—the Legacy Of Orientalism and Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From the Three Gunpowder Empires To The Islamic Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%