Original air date: 27 October 2013 | Historians have come to understand the Enlightenment, a cultural movement emphasizing reason and individualism, as a phenomenon of increasingly early origins that pervaded early modern European intellectual circles. This begs the question: as one of Europe's largest polities of the period, was the Ottoman Empire also party to this intellectual trend? In this episode, Harun Küçük describes what he defines as an Ottoman Enlightenment and explains the ways in which the movement of individuals and ideas linked the Ottoman capital of Istanbul to the broader cultural shifts of the day.

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