Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe

Jan Loop, is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Kent and co-leader of the European Research Area project on Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship (EOS). He is the author of Johann Heinrich Hottinger. Arabic and Islamic Studies in the 17th Century (Oxford, 2013) as well as of several essays and articles on early modern intellectual and cultural history. Alastair Hamilton, is the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, Warburg Institute. His publications include The Copts and the West 1439–1822. The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church (Oxford, 2006), and, with Francis Richard, André Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France (London and Oxford, 2004).Charles Burnett is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is the leader of the Humanities in the European Research Area project on Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship (EOS). Among his books are The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (1997), and Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context (2009).

“The resulting book is a well-edited testimony to the great progress made by scholars of early modern Orientalism since Johann Fück’s seminal 1955 monograph. It offers thirteen individual contributions preceded by a helpful and well-written introduction from Jan Loop and followed by a usable index. […] it succeeds in both expanding the view to include the role of the wider networks of scholars, merchants and missionaries who pursued Arabic studies, incorporates the vital dimension of Arabic learnt on location in the Middle East, and gives us much new information about how the language was practically taught and learnt, as well as bringing to light understudied figures […]. It should find a welcoming readership above all amongst scholars of early modern intellectual history, and especially of orientalism, as well as amongst those practitioners of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies who take a keen interest in their own Fachgeschite.” James Weaver, University of Zurich in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Volume 115, Issue 1 (2020).

• List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsIntroductionJan Loop Arabic Studies in the Netherlands and the Prerequisite of Social Impact – a SurveyArnoud Vrolijk Learning Arabic in Early-Modern EnglandMordechai FeingoldJohann Zechendorff (1580–1662) and Arabic Studies in Zwickau’s Latin SchoolAsaph Ben-TovArabia in the Light of the Midnight Sun: Arabic Studies in Sweden between Gustaf Peringer Lillieblad and Jonas HallenbergBernd RolingSacred History, Sacred Languages: The Question of Arabic in Early Modern SpainMercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez MedianoThe Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Salamanca in the Early Modern PeriodNuria Martínez-de-Castilla-MuñozTeaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Rome: Shaping a Missionary LanguageAurélien GirardThe Qur’an as Chrestomathy in Early Modern EuropeAlastair HamiltonArabic Poetry as Teaching Material in Early Modern Grammars and TextbooksJan LoopLearning to Write, Read and Speak Arabic Outside of Early Modern UniversitiesSonja Brentjes Learning Arabic in the Overseas Factories: The Case of the EnglishSimon Mills Learning Oriental Languages in the Ottoman Empire: Johannes Heyman (1667–1737) between Izmir and DamascusMaurits H. van den BoogertThe Life and Hard Times of Solomon Negri: An Arabic Teacher in Early Modern EuropeJohn-Paul GhobrialShort biographies of authorsIndex