Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624)

Robert Jones, PhD (1988), London University, SOAS; MPhil (1981) Warburg Institute; Bernard Quaritch Ltd (1984-2005), director Islamic Department; library formation and promotion for The Arcadian Library (with Oxford University Press) and The Heritage Library, Doha. Independent bookselling and research (2006-present).

"There is more in Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe than there is space here even to hint at. It is a densely argued tour de force..."Robert Irwin, in: Times Literary Supplement, September 18, 2020“Jones’ work represents a unique technical contribution to the history of Arabic grammar in Europe, to the perception of Arabic language and of its linguistic categories, and to the knowledge of the Orientalist milieu of late Renaissance Europe as a whole.” Sara Fani, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” in: Eurasian Studies Volume19, Issue 2(2021).

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPart 1: Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505–1624)Introductory Remarks1 The Difficulties2 The Achievement3 Dramatis Personae4 Middle Ages to Renaissance: Continuity5 Middle Ages to Renaissance: Discontinuity6 Spain1 The Books1 Manuscript Acquisition2 Arabists Abroad3 Agents4 Eastern Christians in Europe5 The Spoils of War6 Vienna7 Tunis8 Lepanto9 Hungary10 Piracy11 The Value of Plunder to Arabic Studies2 The Teachers1 Captives and Converts2 Leo Africanus3 Paul Willich4 Darwīsh Ibrāhīm5 Neophytes at Rome6 François de Boulogne7 Juan Andrés8 ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad9 Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī10 Ḥusayn of Buda3 The Rules1 Preamble2 Pedro de Alcalá3 Leo Africanus to Nicolaus Clenardus4 Guillaume Postel and Teseo Ambrogio5 Mid-Century Polyglot Handbooks6 Jakob Christmann and Ruthger Spey7 The Medicean Grammars8 The Medicean Grammars in Europe9 Joseph Justus Scaliger and Franciscus Raphelengius10 Thomas Erpenius11 1620–1624SupplementPart 2The Arabic and Persian Studies of Giovanni Battista Raimondi (c. 1536–1614)4  The Alphabetum Arabicum1 IntroductionFigura2 Arabic Script in the Alphabetum arabicum3 Arabic Script in other Renaissance Arabic GrammarsPotestas4 Arabic Vocalization. Imāla5 Vocalization in the Alphabetum arabicum6 Arabic Consonants in the Alphabetum arabicum7 Arabic Consonants in other Renaissance Arabic Grammars8 Conclusion5 The Grammars of 15921 The Ājurrūmiyya within the Islamic Grammatical Tradition2 The Ājurrūmiyya within the European Grammatical Tradition3 The Rome Edition of 15924 The Kāfiya5 Conclusion6 The Liber Tasriphi1 Introduction2 Arabic Terms Preserved3 Translations ad verbum and ad sensum4 Postel and the Morphology of the Verb5 Conclusion7 Arabic Grammar Translated in Manuscript1 A Note on the Derived Forms of the Verb2 Kitāb Miʾat ʿāmil8 Grammars of Persian Translated in Manuscript1 Introduction2 Qawānīn al-furs3 Other Grammars of PersianConcluding RemarksAppendix 1: The Identification of a copy of Bartholomaeus Radtmann’s Introductio in linguam arabicam, Frankfurt a.d. Oder, 1592, now in the British LibraryAppendix 2: Arabic TransliterationAppendix 3: Saltini’s Manuscript Descriptions ExtendedAppendix 4: Raimondi on Arabic, Persian and other LanguagesAppendix 5: Raimondi’s Latin Translation from Avicenna’s Arabic CanonAppendix 6: Raimondi’s Grammar and Dictionary ListAppendix 7: Raimondi and the Lead Books of GranadaBibliographyIndex