Yıldızı düşük imparatorluklar: Bizans ve Osmanlı İmparatorlukları'nda astrolojinin kültürler arası incelemesi

Proposed study examines the similarities and differences in astrology between Ottoman and Byzantine empires. The questions addressed will start with how they defined astrology. Since the borders between astronomy and astrology were not as certain as it is now this is an important question to start. Then how astrology was perceived in both societies will be examined. The practitioners of astrology are also important as a result who important astrologers were and what were their duties or work is another chapter in the discussion. How the characteristics of Zodiac signs are interpreted and how they were explained is another point of inquiry. Finally the astrological illustrations will be investigated in order to show the possible interactions between the empires in question. A sixteenth century ottoman manuscript, Metali'ü 's-Sa'adet ve Yenabiü's-Siyadet by Seyyid Mehmet bin Emir Hasan Suudi, and a twelfth century Byzantine astrological poem by John Kamateros will be used as primary sources for the characteristics of Zodiac signs. In terms of illustrations, the aforementioned Metali'ü 's-Sa'adet provides very valuable sources and for the Byzantine illustrations a fourteenth century manuscript, Ambrosianus H 57 sup., among the few illustrated Byzantine astrological treatises will be benefitted. Even both cultures inherited the same Hellenistic heritage in terms of the science; the evolution of it might differ. Proposed study is a descriptive work which answers aforementioned questions and ends with an analysis by the author.