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Book SynopsisScholarship 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.
Table of ContentsContents 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
