Scholarship between Europe and the Levant

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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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-Farghānī’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 Suhāg

 Nicholas Warner

 10 Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l’érudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban
(XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles)

 Aurélien 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 Étienne 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 années 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