Modernization, Science and Engineering in the Early Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire.

The article argues on the scientistic mentality which dominate in the Ottoman modernization process. It demonstrates the early shinings of scientistic mentality. The formation of this attitude through the example given by Seyyid Mustafa, one of the first Ottoman engineers who wrote in the first half of the nineteenth century was examined. Modern science in the Ottoman modernization period did not always show the same thing but it changed over time. Because of it, different meanings were characterized during the Tanzimat, the Hamidian, and the Young Turk eras.