Detlev Quintern
Professor
Department of Literature
Fatih Sultan Mehmet University
Turkey
Biography
He is currently director for training and development at the Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Research Foundation for the History of Science in Islam , a post I took up in Istanbul in September 2011. While teaching at the History of Science (BA / MA) at the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University in Istanbul, Of geography And the Arabic-Islamic contributions to the development of the cartography from the 9th - 19th Century. In my capacity as visiting lecturer at Bremen University I will continue to teach at the department of Cultural Studies. The seminars scheduled for autumn 2015 and winter 2016 will focus on the history of science as a universal heritage, while specific emphasis will be placed on the flourishing Arabic-Islamic period and its visualization in cartography. Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue is a book series which orientates towards a New Enlightenment.
Research Interest
Islamic Philosophy, History of science and Literature.
Publications
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2010: "In the Yearbook 2010. Brigitte Dottke (Ed.), RisÄla, Hamburg: Theorie und Praxis.
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2011 "Cosmopolitism, Scientific Discoveries, and Technological Inventions along the Silkroad: The Role of Samarkand and Bukhara", In: Annual Report of the Institute for Transport and Development. Hans-Heinrich Bass, Hans Niemeyer (Eds.), Vol. 1, 2011/2012, Bremen: University of Applied Sciences.
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2014 "The Cosmos of Yolanthe - Knowing Without Seeing", In: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, (Ed.), Phenomenology of Space and Time, The Forces of the Cosmos and the Ontopoietic Genesis of Life: Book One, Series: Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 116, Dodrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer.
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2014 "cAql al-Kullî meets the Logos of Life", In: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Nazif Muhtaroglu, Detlev Quintnern, Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue, The Logos of Life and Cultural Interlacing, Series: Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue, Vol. 7, Dodrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer.
