Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Medreseler Neydi, Ne Değildi? Osmanlılarda Akli İlimlerin Eğitimi ve Modern Bilimin Girişi,

Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu’s new book released in November 2019 and titled Medreseler Neydi, Ne Degildi? Osmanlilarda Akli Ilimlerin Egitimi ve Modern Bilimin Girisi [What were Madrasas, What were They not? Instruction of Rational Disciplines and Introduction of Modern Science to the Ottomans] is a collection of essays published in the last decades. In the book’s prefice Prof. Ihsanoglu stresses the newly emerged research interest in the madrasa history and “the nostalgia for the madrasa education” due to idealogical reasons rather than objective necessity. The extended introduction to the book puts forward the issue of how the madrasa history should be approached.