How fear, fascination and Orientalism dragged Turks into European dictionaries Opinion | adnanmahmutovic - aliawhs - RamisOrlu
. How did the Turk get to be a verb?,” as will become clear, encapsulates our simultaneous fascination with and fear of new technology. It is a story of art and engineering, cultural exchanges, and the fear of the unknown. Arguably, it also encapsulates a history of the fascination with, and the fear, of Muslims in Europe.
The year is 1769. The place is the court of the Empress Maria Teresia of Austria, the nation which famously stopped the Ottoman empire from diving deeper into the European continent, and, as the legend goes, brought us theThe Hungarian engineer and inventor Baronwitnessed an illusionist entertaining the Empress and found himself challenged.
The connection between the exoticism of the Turk figure and the robot-chess is thus quite an old one, quite a natural one. No doubt any other figure could have been used, but the figure of the swindling Turk encapsulated the notions of Eastern ingenuity, trickery, exoticism, and danger. And yet, given that the golden age of Islam and science is placed in Europe during centuries of diverse Muslim governance, one could argue that Muslim science is essentially European and that European science is at its core Muslim.
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