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Original cloth bdg. Dust wrapper. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). With selected essays in Turkish, Arabic and French. 2 volumes set: ([xix], 832 p.; [xx] ,322 p.), ills. Essays in honour of Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. 2 volumes set. Vol. 1: Societies, cultures, sciences: A collection of articles. Vol. 2: Biography, bibliography and recollection about Ihsanoglu. Edited by Mustafa Kaçar, Zeynep Durukal, Abdullah Topaloglu. Preface by Halit Eren. This is a Festschrift in honour of Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, who was the Director General of IRCICA from 1980 to December 2004. It is an expression of gratitude for Professor Ihsanoglu's scholarly endeavors that helped to promote research and international cooperation in many fields of studies relating to the Muslim world. The initiative leading to this publication belong to a group of social scientists from IRCICA and from the universities of Istanbul who collaborated with/under the direction of Prof. Ihsanoglu: Dr. Mustafa Kaçar (Istanbul University), Zeynep Durukal (IRCICA), Prof. Ali Akyildiz (Marmara University). The essays of the first volume are grouped in three parts: I. Ottoman History: the Centre, the Provinces, Studies and Sources; II. Cultural Life; III. History of Science. The first volume contains fourty-five articles on the history, cultural life, arts and sciences of Muslim countries which were contributed by scholars from around the world. The second volume contains the views, impressions and souvenirs of persons from academic, diplomatic and cultural circles who have known and collaborated will as his biography, and his bibliography.