The teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe / edited by Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton, Charles Burnett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loop, Jan, editor.

Hamilton, Alastair, 1941- editor.

Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.), editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

History of Oriental studies ; v. 3.

The history of Oriental studies, 2405-4488 ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe--History--17th century--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Arabists--Europe--History--17th century--Congresses.

Arabists.

Arabic language--Study and teaching (Higher).

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchants, diplomats and prisoners. The contributions shed light on different methods and contents of language teaching in a variety of academic, scholarly and missionary contexts in the Protestant and the Roman Catholic world. But they also look beyond the institutional history of Arabic studies and consider the importance of alternative ways in which the study of Arabic was persued.

Contents:

Introduction / Jan Loop

Arabic studies in the Netherlands and the prerequisite of social impact: a survey / Arnoud Vrolijk

Learning Arabic in early-modern England / Mordechai Feingold

Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) and Arabic studies in Zwickau's Latin school / Asaph Ben-Tov

Arabia in the light of the midnight sun: Arabic studies in Sweden: between Gustaf Peringer Lillieblad and Jonas Hallenber / Bernd Roling

Sacred history, sacred languages: the question of Arabic in early modern Spain / Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Fernando Rodriguez Mediano

The teaching and learning of Arabic in Salamanca in the early modern period / Nuria Martinez-de-Castilla-Munoz

Teaching and learning Arabic in early modern Rome: shaping a missionary language / Aurelien Girard

The Qur'an as chrestomathy in early modern Europe / Alastair Hamilton

Arabic poetry as teaching material in early modern grammars and textbooks / Jan Loop

Learning to write, read and speak Arabic outside of early modern universities / Sonja Brentjes

Learning Arabic in the overseas factories: the case of the English / Simon Mills

Learning oriental languages in the Ottoman Empire: Johannes Heyman (1667-1737) between Izmir and Damascus / Maurits H. van den Boogert

The life and hard times of Solomon Negri: an Arabic teacher in early modern Europe / John-Paul Ghobrial.

Notes:

Based on a conference held on 16 November 2013 at the National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, RMO), in Leiden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe.

ISBN:

9789004328143

9004328149

OCLC:

963230891

Publisher Number:

99971554474