Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) /

"From the first Arabic grammar printed at Granada in 1505 to the Arabic editions of the Dutch scholar Thomas Erpenius (d.1624), some audacious scholars - supported by powerful patrons and inspired by several of the greatest minds of the Renaissance - introduced, for the first time, the study of...

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Other Authors: Jones, John Robert, 1952- (Translator)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: The History of Oriental Studies; volume 6.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405868.

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Call Number: PJ6068.E85 J66 2020

Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624): Introductory Remarks
  • 1. 'The Books'
  • 2. 'The Teachers'
  • 3. 'The Rules'
  • Supplement
  • Part II. The Arabic and Persian Studies of Giovan Battista Raimondi (c. 1536-1614): 4. The Alphabetum Arabicum
  • 5. The Grammars of 1592
  • 6. The Liber Tasriphi
  • 7. Arabic Grammar Translated in Manuscript
  • 8. Grammars of Persian Translated in Manuscript
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix 1. The Identification of a copy of Bartholomaeus Radtmann's Introductio in linguam arabicam, Frankfurt a.d. Oder, 1592, now in the British Library
  • Appendix 2. Systems of Transliteration
  • Appendix 3. Saltini's Manuscript Descriptions Extended
  • Appendix 4. Raimondi's General Comments on Arabic and Persian and Other Languages
  • Appendix 5. Raimondi's Latin Translation of a Passage from Avicenna's Arabic Canon
  • Appendix 6. The List of Grammars and Dictionaries in Raimondi's MS. Catalogue with Their Identification and Present-Day Location
  • Appendix 7. Raimondi's Parsing of a Passage from the Lead Books of Granada
  • Bibliography
  • Index.