Arabs and Arabists : selected articles / by Alastair Hamilton.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

xvi, 434 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

"Arabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur'an"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Arabs and Arabists Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021

English

February 28, 2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.