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    Arabic sciences in the humboldtian cosmos: Potentials for the humboldt forum
    (Transcript-Verlag, 2023) Quintern, Detlev
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    Beyond the screen - from virtual reality to moving museums: Turkey's potential in a postmigrant era
    (Istanbul University Press, 2021) Quintern, Detlev
    Postcolonial debates that discuss the genesis, character and development of the museum institution in Canada, the USA, Oceania and Western Europe have revealed the necessity to newly conceptualize museum studies (museology) in a dialogical and transcultural manner. While there is the need to decolonize imperial museums and to restitute stolen artefacts, objects, works of art and monuments, a notable trend is replacing museum objects by replicas. The development of digital, 3-D and other binary technologies makes it more and more difficult for the wider public to distinguish replicas from originals. In the context of continuing restitution debates, the question about which museum hosts the original object and which hosts the replica might become of importance. Furthermore, it is obvious that historicity of material cultures and objects bear an aura that communicates with the "viewer," which is an emotional relationship that cannot be replaced by digitization and virtual reality. The pervasive two-dimensionality in daily life, often from early childhood, longs for alternatives. Museums have the potential to recover creative spaces for emotional and dialogical ways of perception and learning beyond the screen. Turkey shows a specific history of its museums which were influenced by 19th centuries European developments but were differing from British, German or French colonial ethnographic epistemologies. The latter were driven by strategies of collecting material cultures and arts in Asia, Africa, America and Oceania. Turkey is currently hosting around four million refugees in a relatively young post-migrant society, a new museology on the move might pave the way for a more harmonious understanding of history.
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    From Alexander von Humboldt to Fuat Sezgin on the Discovery of America - A Comparative Historiography
    (Istanbul Univ Press, Istanbul Univ Rectorate, 2020) Quintern, Detlev
    Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) not only studied the history of the discovery of America intensively but he also acknowledged the contributions of Arabic sciences to the universal scientific heritage of humanity. Humboldt referred to astronomers and geographers from the flourishing period of sciences during the era of the Abbasid caliph al-Mamun (r. 813/819-833) in Baghdad, and he studied the adaption of Arabic astronomical-geographical works by Christoph Columbus who set sail in late Summer 1492 from the Canary Islands in order to follow a western sea route to the Far East. Humboldt could not be aware of the America map of the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis (ca. 1470-1554) which was found in 1929 in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace, giving new impetuses to the history of the discovery of America. The Piri Rei s maps were studied by Paul Kahle (1933) and Afet Inan (1937, 1954, 1974). Fuat Sezgin embedded the Piri Re.is America map in a wider historical context of sciences, integrating relevant texts, maps and practices interdisciplinary and cross-culturally. While overcoming Eurocentric approaches, Fuat Sezgin introduced a universal understanding of the discovery of America. The historiography of assumed European discoveries requires decolonization. Keywords: History of Discoveries, Decolonial History of Cartography, A. v. Humboldt / F. Sezgin