Scholarship between Europe and the Levant : essays in honour of Alastair Hamilton / editors, Jan Loop and Jill Kraye.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loop, Jan, editor.

Kraye, Jill, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

History of Oriental studies ; v. 8.

The history of Oriental studies ; volume 8

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Hamilton, Alastair, 1941-.

Hamilton, Alastair.

Draper.

Civilization.

Europe--Civilization--Oriental influences.

Europe.

Orient--Civilization--European influences.

Orient.

Europe--Civilization.

Orient--Civilization.

Christianity.

Islam--History.

Islam.

History.

Asia--Orient.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in English, French, German.

Contents:

1 A Polyglot Traveller in the Republic of Letters p. 1 / Jan Loop

2 Between Literature and History p. 7 / Ziad Elmarsafy

3 Islam as a 'Rational' Religion: Early Modern European Views p. 15 / Noel Malcolm

4 Thomas Erpenius, Oriental Scholarship and the Art of Persuasion p. 34 / 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 p. 60 / 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 p. 87 / Mordechai Feingold

7 Ravius in the East p. 110 / Gerald J. Toomer

8 Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im Jahr 1650 p. 128 / Martin Mulsow

9 The Errant Eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the Monasteries of Suhag p. 149 / Nicholas Warner

10 Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l'erudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) p. 173 / Aurélien Girard

11 Historia Literaria Alcorani: Two Lutheran Scholars Chronicling Oriental Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century p. 195 / Asaph Ben-Tov

12 Fasting: The Limits of Catholic Confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the Eighteenth Century p. 217 / Bernard Heyberger

13 Away with All the Greeks: Ancients, Moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont's 'Oratio de lingua Arabica' (1715) p. 236 / Alexander Bevilacqua

14 Richard Pococke and the Natural Curiosities of the East p. 260 / Jan Marten Ivo Klaver

15 Patrick Russell and the Arabian Nights Manuscripts p. 276 / Maurits H. van den Boogert

16 Volney's Meditations on Ruins and Empires p. 299 / Robert Irwin

17 Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des années 1795-1798 vus de Bagdad p. 318 / Francis Richard

18 Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848-1856 p. 328 / Tarif Khalidi

19 Snouck Hurgronje's Consular Ambitions p. 349 / Jan Just Witkam.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on May 19, 2020).

ISBN:

9789004429321

9004429328

Publisher Number:

40029964938

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