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This book is the first documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. It includes a biographical account of Hottinger, studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as teacher of the Arabic language, as student of the history of Islam, and as a Protestant who used his work to engage in anti-Catholic polemics.
Info autore
Jan Loop is a lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Kent and the academic coordinator of the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) at the Warburg Institute, London. His teaching and research interests are in the intellectual, religious and cultural history of Europe and the Near East, with a special focus on the Western knowledge of the Arab, Ottoman, and Persian world from 1500-1800.
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This book is the first documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. It includes a biographical account of Hottinger, studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as teacher of the Arabic language, as student of the history of Islam, and as a Protestant who used his work to engage in anti-Catholic polemics.
Testo aggiuntivo
[Loop] has thoroughly examined not only the published works of Hottinger and his authorities, but also an enormous amount of unpublished correspondence ... He also displays a truly astonishing familiarity with the relevant secondary literature, not only of recent times, but also from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries ... Loop has brought to his task an acute critical judgment, and a profound knowledge of the historical background, complemented by his ability to present a complicated web of events and activities in an intelligible and consistently interesting narrative. The result is a book which not only restores Hottinger to his rightful place in the development of oriental studies, but is a major contribution to the history of scholarship.
