The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Jan Loop, University of Kent, Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute, University of London, Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute, University of London.

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.

Mercedes-García Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano have contributed to this volume with chapter 5:  Sacred History, Sacred Languages: The Question of Arabic in Early Modern Spain. This chapter is universally and freely accessible via Brill Open here.

 

 

The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe

Editors: Jan Loop, Alastair Hamilton and Charles Burnett

•Publication Year : 2017

•Book DOI: 10.1163/9789004338623

•E - ISBN : 9789004338623

•Collections:  Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017

•Volume:  3

•Series:  The History of Oriental Studies

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