Prof. Dr. İlhami Sığırcı’s new work, Global History of Translation, is now on the shelves.

Global History of Translation is a study spanning from Ancient Greece to Rome, from Andalusia to Europe, from Central Asia to the Middle East, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic.

The book regards translation not merely as the transfer of texts across languages, but also as a historical force that empowers societies to establish their own languages, intellectual worlds, and institutions. While examining the contributions of the Baghdad and Toledo schools to civilization, the role of translations in the birth of universities, and the rise of national languages, it reserves a special place for the Turkish experience stretching from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic.

Tracing a journey from Sumerian tablets to artificial intelligence, and from Baghdad and Toledo to the Ottoman Empire and the Republic, Global History of Translation reveals the civilization-building role of translation. It stands as the first and most comprehensive study in the Turkish language to tackle the global history of translation as a unified whole.