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Eastern Wisedome and Learning - The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
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Eastern Wisedome and Learning - The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
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This book narrates the extraordinary growth in the study of Arabic
in England from the late sixteenth century, when it was almost
non-existent, to the end of the seventeenth. By its high point
around 1666, England was pre-eminent among European countries in
the study of Arabic. Permanent Chairs of Arabic had been
established at Oxford and Cambridge, and specialized presses in
Oxford and London had produced Arabic works. The Professor at
Oxford, Edward Pococke, was recognized as the foremost scholar in
the field in Europe, and a great collection of Arabic manuscripts,
begun by Archbishop Laud, was being built up at Oxford. In this
masterly and original study, Professor Toomer gives the first
detailed account of this process, set against the religious and
political background in England and Europe. He shows how trade with
the Ottoman Empire and mistrust of Islam influenced the study of
Arabic. Finally, he traces the course and causes of the drastic
decline in Arabic studies towards the end of the century.
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