Research Catalog

Title

The teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe / edited by Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton, Charles Burnett.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Loop, Jan
• Hamilton, Alastair, 1941-
• Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.)

Description

xii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchants, diplomats and prisoners. The contributions shed light on different methods and contents of language teaching in a variety of academic, scholarly and missionary contexts in the Protestant and the Roman Catholic world. But they also look beyond the institutional history of Arabic studies and consider the importance of alternative ways in which the study of Arabic was persued.

Series Statement

The history of Oriental studies, 2405-4488 ; volume 3

Uniform Title

History of Oriental studies ; v. 3.

Subjects

• Arabists > Europe > History > 17th century > Congresses
• Arabic language > Study and teaching (Higher) > Europe > History > 17th century > Congresses

Note

• Based on a conference held on 16 November 2013 at the National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, RMO), in Leiden.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Jan Loop -- Arabic studies in the Netherlands and the prerequisite of social impact: a survey / Arnoud Vrolijk -- Learning Arabic in early-modern England / Mordechai Feingold -- Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) and Arabic studies in Zwickau's Latin school / Asaph Ben-Tov -- Arabia in the light of the midnight sun: Arabic studies in Sweden: between Gustaf Peringer Lillieblad and Jonas Hallenber / Bernd Roling -- Sacred history, sacred languages: the question of Arabic in early modern Spain / Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Fernando Rodriguez Mediano -- The teaching and learning of Arabic in Salamanca in the early modern period / Nuria Martinez-de-Castilla-Munoz -- Teaching and learning Arabic in early modern Rome: shaping a missionary language / Aurelien Girard -- The Qur'an as chrestomathy in early modern Europe / Alastair Hamilton -- Arabic poetry as teaching material in early modern grammars and textbooks / Jan Loop -- Learning to write, read and speak Arabic outside of early modern universities / Sonja Brentjes -- Learning Arabic in the overseas factories: the case of the English / Simon Mills -- Learning oriental languages in the Ottoman Empire: Johannes Heyman (1667-1737) between Izmir and Damascus / Maurits H. van den Boogert -- The life and hard times of Solomon Negri: an Arabic teacher in early modern Europe / John-Paul Ghobrial.

Call Number

JFE 17-4310

ISBN

• 9789004328143
• 9004328149

LCCN

2016051518

OCLC

963230891

Title

The teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe / edited by Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton, Charles Burnett.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The history of Oriental studies, 2405-4488 ; volume 3

History of Oriental studies ; v. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Loop, Jan, editor.

Hamilton, Alastair, 1941- editor.

Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.), editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004338623

Research Call Number

JFE 17-4310