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Pascual de Gayangos
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ISBN: 0748653147 1282059017 9786612059018 0748635483 9780748635481 9781282059016 9780748653140 0748635475 9780748635474 661205901X Year: 2008 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Pascual de Gayangos (1809-1897), celebrated Spanish Orientalist and polymath, is recognised as the father of the modern school of Arabic studies in Spain. This collection celebrates the 200th anniversary of his birth

The 'Arabick' interest of the natural philosophers in seventeenth-century England
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ISSN: 09208607 ISBN: 9004098887 9004247068 9789004098886 Year: 1994 Volume: 47 Publisher: New York, N.Y. E.J. Brill

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The medieval concern with Arabic is well established. There was, however, a 'second wave' of Arabic interest in seventeenth-century Europe, which is not widely known. The essays in this volume reveal that, contrary to all expectation, the study of Arabic was pursued by a circle of natural philosophers, philologists and theologians in England in close contact with those on the Continent. Arabic was defended as an aid to biblical exegesis and as the key to a 'treasure house' of ancient knowledge. It led to the founding of Arabic chairs at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, endowed by archbishops and merchants. Arabic was taught, along with Hebrew, at Westminster school. Immense collections of Arabic manuscripts were acquired both privately and by libraries, such as the Bodleian at Oxford. They were sought after by natural philosophers in their research in observational astronomy or in the reconstruction of Greek mathematics. Arabic was also part of the Anglican interest in Eastern Churches. In addition to the earlier elegant editions of the Medici Press at Rome, bi-lingual texts, grammars, lexicons, and histories, were published by trained Arabists. Forgeries emerged based on Arabo-Latin alchemical texts. Arabic was included in the concern with a universal philosophical language. Arabic subjects featured extensively in the correspondence of the Royal Society. The impact of translated texts extended to the Quakers as well as to individual figures, such as Locke. In short, at a time when least expected, Arabic interest permeated all levels of English society, encompassing subjects which ranged from science, religion, and medicine, to typography and importing garden plants. Fourteen historians from different disciplines examine the extent and sources of this phenomenon. Arabic interest is shown to have been a significant aspect of the rise of Protestant intellectual tradition. It was also a major component of University reforms and of secular academic scholarship at Oxford and Cambridge. Thus the period also marks the institutionalisation of Arabic studies. By identifying many unexpected 'Arabick' strands in the complex skein of seventeenth-century English concerns, this volume opens new lines of investigation and challenges some of the accepted historical interpretations of the period.


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The teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe
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ISBN: 9004338624 9789004338623 9789004328143 9004328149 Year: 2017 Volume: 3 Publisher: Leiden, Boston Brill

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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. Contributors are Asaph Ben Tov, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Sonja Brentjes, Mordechai Feingold, Mercedes García-Arenal, John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Aurélien Girard, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Simon Mills, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Bernd Roling, Arnoud Vrolijk. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.

William Bedwell, the Arabist, 1563-1632
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ISBN: 9004072411 9789004072411 Year: 1985 Publisher: Leiden Published for the Sir Thomas Browne Institute [by] E.J. Brill/Leiden University Press


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Louis Gardet : philosophe chrétien des cultures et témoin du dialogue islamo-chrétien (1904-1986)
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ISBN: 9782204089593 2204089591 Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris Les Editions du Cerf


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Il Corano e il pontefice : Ludovico Marracci fra cultura islamica e Curia papale
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ISBN: 9788843073801 884307380X Year: 2015 Publisher: Roma Carocci editore

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