IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012

BIOGRAPHIESESSAYS IN HONOUR OFEKMELEDDİN İHSANOĞLUEKMELEDDİN İHSANOĞLU’NA ARMAĞAN2 VOL.Volume I: Societies, Cultures, Sciences: A Collection of Articles;Compiled by Mustafa Kaçar and Zeynep DurukalVolume II: Biography, Bibliography, and Recollections about İhsanoğlu,Compiled by Abdullah Topaloğlu, foreword by Halit Erenİstanbul, 2006 (in English, articles in English, French, Turkish)(Studies and Sources on the History of Islamic Civilisation Series; 13)ISBN 92-9063-155-4 (vol. 1), ISBN 92-9063-156-2 (vol. 2)ISBN 92-9063-157-x (set)This is a Festschrift in honour of Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddinİhsanoğlu, the Secretary General of the Organisation of theIslamic Conference, who was the Director General of IRCICAfrom 1980 to December 2004. It is an expression of gratitudefor Professor İhsanoğlu’s scholarly endeavors that helped topromote research and international cooperation in many fieldsof studies relating to the Muslim world. The initiative leadingto to this publication belong to a group of social scientists fromIRCICA and from the universities of İstanbul who collaboratedwith/under the direction of Prof. İhsanoğlu: Dr. Mustafa Kaçar(İstanbul University), Zeynep Durukal (IRCICA), Prof. AliAkyıldız (Marmara University). The essays of the first volumeare grouped in three parts: I. Ottoman History: the Centre, theProvinces, Studies and Sources; II. Cultural Life; III. Historyof Science. The first volume contains fourty-five articles onthe history, cultural life, arts and sciences of Muslim countrieswhich were contributed by scholars from around the world. Thesecond volume contains the views, impressions and souvenirsof persons from academic, diplomatic and cultural circles whohave known and collaborated with İhsanoğlu, as well as hisbiography, and his bibliography.Price: US$ 60 (including post)IRCICA PUBLICATIONS 1980-2012 23