Scholarship between Europe and the Levant

Jan Loop is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Kent. He is the author of Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667). Arabic and Islamic Studies in the 17th Century (Oxford, 2013) and co-editor of The Learning and Teaching of Arabic in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2017).Jill Kraye is an Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Philosophy at the Warburg Institute. She jointly edited The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism (London, 2019) and is an editor of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes and of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.

• Contents List of FiguresContributors1 A Polyglot Traveller in the Republic of LettersJan Loop2 Between Literature and HistoryZiad Elmarsafy3 Islam as a ‘Rational’ Religion: Early Modern European ViewsNoel Malcolm4 Thomas Erpenius, Oriental Scholarship and the Art of PersuasionArnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg5 From Astronomica to Exotica: Jacob Golius’s edition of al-Farghānī’s On the Science of the Stars in Comparison with the Earlier VersionsCharles Burnett6 An Unrecognized ‘Critique’ of John Selden’s Historie of Tithes: John Gregory’s 1634 Edition of View of the Civile and Ecclesiasticall Law by Thomas RidleyMordechai Feingold7 Ravius in the EastGerald J. Toomer8 Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im JahrMartin Mulsow9 The Errant Eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the Monasteries of SuhāgNicholas Warner10 Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l’érudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles)Aurélien Girard11 Historia Literaria Alcorani: Two Lutheran Scholars Chronicling Oriental Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth CenturyAsaph Ben-Tov12 Fasting: The Limits of Catholic Confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the Eighteenth CenturyBernard Heyberger13 Away with All the Greeks: Ancients, Moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont’s ‘Oratio de lingua Arabica’ (1715)Alexander Bevilacqua14 Richard Pococke and the Natural Curiosities of the EastJan Marten Ivo Klaver15 Patrick Russell and the Arabian Nights ManuscriptsMaurits H. van den Boogert16 Volney’s Meditations on Ruins and EmpiresRobert Irwin17 Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des années 1795–1798 vus de BagdadFrancis Richard18 Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848–1856Tarif Khalidi19 Snouck Hurgronje’s Consular AmbitionsJan Just WitkamAlastair Hamilton—List of Scholarly PublicationsIndex