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A commerce of knowledge : trade, religion, and scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600-1760
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A commerce of knowledge : trade, religion, and scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600-1760 / Simon Mills.
ISBN
0198840330
9780198840336
Edition
First edition.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant and related titles
Trade, religion, and scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600-1760
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 14, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-315) and index.
Contents
List of Illustrations, p.xiii
List of Abbreviations, p.xv
Note to the Reader, p.xvii
Introduction, p.1
PART I. FROM OXFORD TO ALEPPO
1. "Lurky Labours', p.15
'the vagrant Scholar', p.16
'in Aleppo once', p.31
'the picker-up of learning's crumbs', p.48
A Commerce of Letters, p.57
PART II. BUILDING A LIBRARY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SYRIA
2. Edward Pococke in Aleppo , p.71
The Scholar and the Sufi: Pococke and Ahmad al-Gulshani, p.74
Pococke and Aleppes News, p.89
Pococke and Aleppos Christians, p.91
Conclusion, p.94
3. 'A Rich Treasure of Manuscripts': Robert Huntington in Syria, p.96
Huntingtons Commissions, p.101
Huntingtons commissions for Pococke p.101
Huntingtons commissions for Bernard, p.103
Huntington's further commissions, p. 106
Beyond Aleppo, p.107
From the sacred mountain: The Maronites, p.108
'The revealer of secrets': Father Agathangelus and the Mandaeans
'In the wea1thiest emporium of Palestine': The Samaritans, p.123
The Riches of the East, p.131
Conclusion, p.136.
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