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Scholarship between Europe and the Levant: essays in honour of Alastair Hamilton

Scholarship between Europe and the Levant: essays in honour of Alastair Hamilton
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ISBN 900442931X (hardcover)
9789004429314 (hardcover)
Title Scholarship between Europe and the Levant : essays in honour of Alastair Hamilton / edited by Jan Loop and Jill Kraye
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020
Physical desc. xiv, 398 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour), portrait ; 25 cm.
Series History of Oriental studies 8
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A polyglot traveller in the republic of letters / Jan Loop -- Between literature and history / Ziad Elmarsafy -- Islam as a 'rational' religion: early modern European views / Noel Malcolm -- Thomas Erpenius, Oriental scholarship and the art of persuasion / Arnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg -- 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 -- 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 -- Ravius in the East / Gerald J. Toomer -- Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im Jahr 1650 / Martin Mulsow -- The errant eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the monasteries of Suhāg / Nicholas Warner -- Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l'érudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) / Aurélien Girard -- Historia Literaria Alcorani: two Lutheran scholars chronicling Oriental scholarship at the turn of the eighteenth century / Asaph Ben-Tov -- Fasting: the limits of Catholic confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the eighteenth century / Bernard Heyberger -- Away with all the Greeks: ancients, moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont's 'Oratio de lingua Arabica' (1715) / Alexander Bevilacqua -- Richard Pococke and the natural curiosities of the East / Jan Marten Ivo Klaver -- Patrick Russell and the Arabian nights manuscripts / Maurits H. van den Boogert -- Volney's meditations on ruins and empires / Robert Irwin -- Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des années 1795-1798 vus de Bagdad / Francis Richard -- Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848-1856 / Tarif Khalidi -- Snouck Hurgronje's consular ambitions / Jan Just Witkam -- Alastair Hamilton: list of scholarly publications.
Publication History Chiefly in English; two chapters in French, one in German.
Subject Islam -- Relations -- Christianity
Christianity and other religions -- Islam
Middle East specialists
Europe -- Relations -- Islamic countries
Islamic countries -- Relations -- Europe
Middle East -- Study and teaching -- Europe
Added name(s) Loop, Jan editor
Kraye, Jill editor
Hamilton, Alastair 1941- honouree
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