Arabs and Arabists

Alastair Hamilton, Ph.D. (1982), is a Senior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He has published monographs and articles on relations between Europe and the Arab world, including The Copts and the West 1439-1822 (2006, 2nd ed. 2014).

• PrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviationsPart 1: Arabs and Arabists1 An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of LettersJosephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt2 Michel d’Asquier, Imperial Interpreter and Bibliophile3 Isaac Casaubon the Arabist‘Video Longum Esse Iter’1 The Apprentice2 The Method3 The Centre of a Circle4 The Arabist5 Conclusion4 ‘To Divest the East of All Its Manuscripts and All Its Rarities’The Unfortunate Embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville5 From East to WestJansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy1 The Embassy in Istanbul2 Protestant Reactions3 Eastern Beliefs4 Conclusion6 Adrianus Relandus (1676–1718)Outstanding Orientalist7 Arabists and Cartesians at Utrecht8 Pilgrims, Missionaries, and ScholarsWestern Descriptions of the Monastery of St Paul from the Late Fourteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century1 Prosperity to Destitution2 Revival and Restoration3 Continuity and Change4 Scholarly Investigation9 The Metamorphoses of Georg August WallinPart 2: Arabic Studies10 Arabic Studies in Europe1 The Motives2 The Grammars3 The Dictionaries4 The Schools11 The Victims of ProgressThe Raphelengius Arabic Type and Bedwell’s Arabic Lexicon12 ‘Nam Tirones Sumus’Franciscus Raphelengius’s Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Leiden 1613)1 Antwerp2 Leiden3 Publication4 Raphelengius’s Arabic ManuscriptsAppendix: Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library13 Franciscus RaphelengiusThe Hebraist and His Manuscripts14 Abraham Ecchellensis et son ‘Nomenclator Arabico-Latinus’1 Introduction2 Ecchellensis lexicologue3 Les sources du ‘Nomenclator’4 L’organisation du ‘Nomenclator’5 Un vocabulaire chrétien6 Le ‘Nomenclator’ et le Coran7 ConclusionPart 3: Islam and the Qurʾan15 The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe1 From the Islamic Conquests to the Reformation2 Parallel Developments: the Protestant North3 Parallel Developments: the Catholic South4 Conclusion16 A Lutheran Translator for the QurʾanA Late Seventeenth-Century Quest1 The Turkish Defeat2 Competing Translators3 The Key to Success17 ‘To Rescue the Honour of the Germans’Qurʾan Translations by Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Protestants18 The Qurʾan as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe19 After MarracciThe Reception of Ludovico Marracci’s Edition of the Qurʾan in NorthernEurope from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth CenturyIndex