Networks of Knowledge (eBook)

Inhaltsverzeichnis 6
Preface 8
Introduction 10
Chapter 1: Negotiating a Third Space between Orders of Knowledge 23
Secularity as a third space? 23
The Ottoman Empire seen through the lens of an American paradigm 25
Between neutrality and a Protestant religious framing 30
The exclusion of denominational issues from the academic networks 34
A vernacular approach: the wa?an 36
From the “Syrian Protestant College” to the “American University of Beirut” 40
Chapter 2: Research on Biblical Topography as a Model for Entangled Knowledge 46
Introductory remarks 46
Topographical research and missionary work 47
Negotiating the cooperation between a biblical Scholar and a missionary 53
Equipment for the excursions 61
Keeping track of the journey 68
Connecting vernacular knowledge to topographical research 76
Writing the book “Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea” 85
Further topographical research 91
Transculturality and issues of epistemic power 95
Chapter 3: Establishing Academic Networks in and between America, the Middle East and Europe 101
Networks between individuals 101
The ABCFM secretary getting involved in academic networking and research 106
The initiators of the American Oriental Society and their relation to the ABCFM 108
The concurrence of academic societies in Boston and Beirut 114
The transcultural character of the Syrian Society of Arts and Sciences 120
Rufus Anderson and Edward Robinson negotiating the design of the AOS 128
Networking between academic societies in the United States, Syria, and Europe 132
Chapter 4: The Art of Printing – A New Arabic Font to Satisfy the Taste of Arab Readers 140
The establishment of the American press in Beirut. 140
Striving for beauty in Arabic printing 146
Connecting to Germany 150
Bringing to Lebanon the ability to reproduce the new Arabic typeface 164
Chapter 5: The Introduction of Periodicals to Arab Readers in Syria 173
Majmu? Fawa?id (1851–1856) 175
The missionaries’ influence on the establishment of Syrian Christian periodicals 182
From “Akhbar ?an Intishar al-Injil fi Amakin Mukhtalifa” to “al-Nashra al-Usbu?iyyah” (beginning 1863) 183
“Kawkab al-Sobh al-Munir” and “Molhaq al-Nashra al-Usbu?iyya” 189
Akhbar al-Tibbiyya and al-Tabib882F 194
Summary 197
Bibliography 202
Archive Collections 202
Periodical Sources (German, English) 202
Periodical Sources (Arabic) 202
Published Sources 202
Unpublished Sources and Dissertations 209
Web Sources 209