The volume investigates flows of knowledge that transcended social, cultural, linguistic and political boundaries. Dealing with different sources such as dictionaries, early printed books, political advice literature, and modern periodicals, the case studies in this anthology cover a time frame from the 15th to the early 20th century. Being concerned with a wide variety of geographical areas, including the Ottoman capital Istanbul, provincial settings like Ottoman Palestine, and also Egypt, Bosnia, Crimea, the Persian realm and Poland-Lithuania, this volume gives transepochal and transregional insights in the production, transmission, and translation of knowledge. In so doing it contributes to current debates in transcultural studies, global history, and the history of knowledge.

Evelin Dierauff ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Seminar für Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaft der Universität Bochum. Sie hat Arabistik, Islamwissenschaft und Judaistik studiert und forscht über die Geschichte politischer Konzepte im modernen arabischen Osten.