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Scholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work and legacy. They discuss and celebrate intellectual, artistic and religious encounters between Europe and the cultural area stretching from Northern Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, and spanning the period from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Contributors: Asaph Ben-Tov, Alexander Bevilacqua, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Charles Burnett, Ziad Elmarsafy, Mordechai Feingold, Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, Robert Irwin, Tarif Khalidi, J.M.I. Klaver, Noel Malcolm, Martin Mulsow, Francis Richard, G. J. Toomer, Arnoud Vrolijk, Nicholas Warner, Joanna Weinberg, and Jan Just Witkam.

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Author:   Jan Loop ,  Jill Kraye
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.736kg
ISBN:  

9789004429314

ISBN 10:   900442931
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   14 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, German

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Contents List of Figures Contributors 1 A Polyglot Traveller in the Republic of Letters Jan Loop 2 Between Literature and History Ziad Elmarsafy 3 Islam as a 'Rational' Religion: Early Modern European Views Noel Malcolm 4 Thomas Erpenius, Oriental Scholarship and the Art of Persuasion Arnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg 5 From Astronomica to Exotica: Jacob Golius's edition of al-Farghani's On the Science of the Stars in Comparison with the Earlier Versions Charles Burnett 6 An Unrecognized 'Critique' of John Selden's Historie of Tithes: John Gregory's 1634 Edition of View of the Civile and Ecclesiasticall Law by Thomas Ridley Mordechai Feingold 7 Ravius in the East Gerald J. Toomer 8 Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im Jahr Martin Mulsow 9 The Errant Eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the Monasteries of Suhag Nicholas Warner 10 Histoire connectee du monachisme oriental. De l'erudition catholique en Europe aux reformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe-XVIIIe siecles) Aurelien Girard 11 Historia Literaria Alcorani: Two Lutheran Scholars Chronicling Oriental Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century Asaph Ben-Tov 12 Fasting: The Limits of Catholic Confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the Eighteenth Century Bernard Heyberger 13 Away with All the Greeks: Ancients, Moderns and Arabs in Etienne Fourmont's 'Oratio de lingua Arabica' (1715) Alexander Bevilacqua 14 Richard Pococke and the Natural Curiosities of the East Jan Marten Ivo Klaver 15 Patrick Russell and the Arabian Nights Manuscripts Maurits H. van den Boogert 16 Volney's Meditations on Ruins and Empires Robert Irwin 17 Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des annees 1795-1798 vus de Bagdad Francis Richard 18 Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848-1856 Tarif Khalidi 19 Snouck Hurgronje's Consular Ambitions Jan Just Witkam Alastair Hamilton-List of Scholarly Publications Index

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Jan Loop is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Kent. He is the author of Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667). Arabic and Islamic Studies in the 17th Century (Oxford, 2013) and co-editor of The Learning and Teaching of Arabic in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2017). Jill Kraye is an Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Philosophy at the Warburg Institute. She jointly edited The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism (London, 2019) and is an editor of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes and of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.

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