#چکیده #Abstract
Knowledge Culture as inclusive and participatory commemorative culture: Islamic Knowledges in public and museum spaces
The Hafiz-Goethe monument in Weimar commemorates the Persian poet Hafiz (CA. 1315-1390), who inspired the poetry of Johann-Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Rückert. Goethe's book of poems, the Western-Eastern Divan (1819) exemplifies this. Monuments, historical editions of the Divan and manuscripts – including those written by Goethe in Arabic – are evidence of material and manuscript cultures being part of UNESCO World Documents Heritage. They are among the most well-known and only recently installed material memorials in the German-speaking public spaces, refering to Persian and Arabic inspirations and adaptions in poetry. When it comes to commemorative material and immaterial cultures of knowledge and sciences in Islam further research is needed.
In addition to monuments, objects and manuscripts in museums and archives, there are numerous memorials, artifacts and objects of Eastern-Western knowledge travel- ing, its adaptations and representations in material cultures in the public area, which have hitherto, and if at all, then only been dealt selectively in the historically oriented cultural sciences and history of sciences. This holds true for Arabic embroidered Bishop's robes dating back to the 13th century or friezes, e.g., representing ar-Rāzī on the wall of pharmacies at the beginning of the 17th century.
The presentation will map some material and immaterial cultures of remembrance, before question them with regard to their musealizability, discussing them in the context of critical cultural and knowledge heritage debates. Against the background of the discussion about multi-perspective, multi-directional and polylogical commem- orative cultures, recent approaches of an inclusive and decolonial culture of memory, which take Persian and Arabic contributions to the universal culture of knowledge into the research focus, are introduced.
Giving some examples from German speaking lands and Turkey (Ibn Sīnā Garden in Istanbul), the presentation will also introduce new paths of experimental history of sciences, e.g., in the fields chemistry, pharmacy (distillation) and medicinal botanic.
Detlev Quintern,
Istanbul, the 24th of January 2021
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🆔: @philsharif
Knowledge Culture as inclusive and participatory commemorative culture: Islamic Knowledges in public and museum spaces
The Hafiz-Goethe monument in Weimar commemorates the Persian poet Hafiz (CA. 1315-1390), who inspired the poetry of Johann-Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Rückert. Goethe's book of poems, the Western-Eastern Divan (1819) exemplifies this. Monuments, historical editions of the Divan and manuscripts – including those written by Goethe in Arabic – are evidence of material and manuscript cultures being part of UNESCO World Documents Heritage. They are among the most well-known and only recently installed material memorials in the German-speaking public spaces, refering to Persian and Arabic inspirations and adaptions in poetry. When it comes to commemorative material and immaterial cultures of knowledge and sciences in Islam further research is needed.
In addition to monuments, objects and manuscripts in museums and archives, there are numerous memorials, artifacts and objects of Eastern-Western knowledge travel- ing, its adaptations and representations in material cultures in the public area, which have hitherto, and if at all, then only been dealt selectively in the historically oriented cultural sciences and history of sciences. This holds true for Arabic embroidered Bishop's robes dating back to the 13th century or friezes, e.g., representing ar-Rāzī on the wall of pharmacies at the beginning of the 17th century.
The presentation will map some material and immaterial cultures of remembrance, before question them with regard to their musealizability, discussing them in the context of critical cultural and knowledge heritage debates. Against the background of the discussion about multi-perspective, multi-directional and polylogical commem- orative cultures, recent approaches of an inclusive and decolonial culture of memory, which take Persian and Arabic contributions to the universal culture of knowledge into the research focus, are introduced.
Giving some examples from German speaking lands and Turkey (Ibn Sīnā Garden in Istanbul), the presentation will also introduce new paths of experimental history of sciences, e.g., in the fields chemistry, pharmacy (distillation) and medicinal botanic.
Detlev Quintern,
Istanbul, the 24th of January 2021
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🆔: @philsharif
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