Arabs and Arabists

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).

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 Qurʾan


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 Qurʾan


 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’


 Qurʾan Translations by Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Protestants





18 The Qurʾan as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe





19 After Marracci

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





Index