Arabs and Arabists

Selected Articles
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49819-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 874 g

Reihe: The History of Oriental Studies

Arabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamilton, Alastair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Part 1: Arabs and Arabists

1 An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters

Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt

2 Michel d’Asquier, Imperial Interpreter and Bibliophile

3 Isaac Casaubon the Arabist

‘Video Longum Esse Iter’

1 The Apprentice

2 The Method

3 The Centre of a Circle

4 The Arabist

5 Conclusion

4 ‘To Divest the East of All Its Manuscripts and All Its Rarities’

The Unfortunate Embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville

5 From East to West

Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy

1 The Embassy in Istanbul

2 Protestant Reactions

3 Eastern Beliefs

4 Conclusion

6 Adrianus Relandus (1676–1718)

Outstanding Orientalist

7 Arabists and Cartesians at Utrecht

8 Pilgrims, Missionaries, and Scholars

Western Descriptions of the Monastery of St Paul from the Late Fourteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century

1 Prosperity to Destitution

2 Revival and Restoration

3 Continuity and Change

4 Scholarly Investigation

9 The Metamorphoses of Georg August Wallin

Part 2: Arabic Studies

10 Arabic Studies in Europe

1 The Motives

2 The Grammars

3 The Dictionaries

4 The Schools

11 The Victims of Progress

The Raphelengius Arabic Type and Bedwell’s Arabic Lexicon

12 ‘Nam Tirones Sumus’

Franciscus Raphelengius’s Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Leiden 1613)

1 Antwerp

2 Leiden

3 Publication

4 Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts

Appendix: Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library

13 Franciscus Raphelengius

The Hebraist and His Manuscripts

14 Abraham Ecchellensis et son ‘Nomenclator Arabico-Latinus’

1 Introduction

2 Ecchellensis lexicologue

3 Les sources du ‘Nomenclator’

4 L’organisation du ‘Nomenclator’

5 Un vocabulaire chrétien

6 Le ‘Nomenclator’ et le Coran

7 Conclusion

Part 3: Islam and the Qur'an

15 The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe

1 From the Islamic Conquests to the Reformation

2 Parallel Developments: the Protestant North

3 Parallel Developments: the Catholic South

4 Conclusion

16 A Lutheran Translator for the Qur'an

A Late Seventeenth-Century Quest

1 The Turkish Defeat

2 Competing Translators

3 The Key to Success

17 ‘To Rescue the Honour of the Germans’

Qur'an Translations by Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Protestants

18 The Qur'an as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe

19 After Marracci

The Reception of Ludovico Marracci’s Edition of the Qur'an in Northern
Europe from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alastair Hamilton, Ph.D. (1982), is a Senior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He has published monographs and articles on relations between Europe and the Arab world, including The Copts and the West 1439-1822 (2006, 2nd ed. 2014).