Sıradışı bir Osmanlı alimi nazarından Avrupa bilim, askeri devrim ve aydınlanması: Şanizade Mehmed Ataullah Efendi'nin (v. 1826) Vesâyânâme-i Seferiyye ve Müfredât-ı Külliyye Fî Sevâhili'l-Bahriyye adlı eserleri

Şanizade Ataullah Efendi (d. 1826) was a traditionally trained alim/religious and legal scholar. However, he was no prototypical member of the classical Ottoman ilmiye corps. Thanks to his foresighted intellectual pursuit of contemporary European learning enabled by his peerless mastery of European languages. He is best known as a pioneer of modern European medical knowledge among Ottoman Muslim elites and as an official court historiographer/vakanüvis. His history covering the first dozen years of Sultan Mahmud II's rule, Tarih-i Şanizade -a part of the classical Ottoman historiographical tradition in many ways- was also unique with its critical socio-political analyses providing a window into the author's mentality. In this thesis however, I study the lesser known works of Şanizade in the domain of military-engineering and its auxiliary disciplines, geography and mathematics. These were a product of the 'technology' policymaking of the Nizam-ı Cedid/New Order reformist cadres under Sultan Selim III in the first decade of the 19th century. Two specific translation works in manuscript form from this early career period of Şanizade when he was affiliated with the Imperial School of Engineering/Mühendishane provide the main data for this thesis investigating how an Ottoman Islamic scholar regarded and retold what historiographically are defined as modern science-technology, warfare, and European politics. I first produce an explicated critical edition of Şanizade's Vesayaname-i Seferiyye, a translation of the book General-Principia vom Kriege by the Prussian King Frederick II on warfare and logistics. Then, the thesis provides an annotated transcription of Şanizade's book on naval geography and navigation, Müfredat-ı Külliyye fi Sevahili'l-Bahriyye, largely based on English geographer-cartographer John Hamilton Moore's The New Practical Navigator. Keywords: Friedrich II, Historiography, Military Reform, Nizam-ı Cedid, Ottoman Geography, Şanizade.