Scholarship Between Europe and the Levant

Essays in Honour of Alastair Hamilton
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42931-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: The History of Oriental Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loop, Jan

Kraye, Jill

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.