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A Commerce of Knowledge - Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760 (Hardcover)
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A Commerce of Knowledge - Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760 (Hardcover)
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A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of
Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company
in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan
city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills investigates the links between
English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly
and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages;
the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the
early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early
modern Orientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the
history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo, A Commerce
of Knowledge brings to light the connections between the seemingly
separate worlds, tracing the emergence of new kinds of philological
and archaeological enquiry in England back to a series of
real-world encounters between the chaplains and the scribes,
booksellers, priests, rabbis, and sheikhs they encountered in the
Ottoman Empire. Setting the careers of its protagonists against a
background of broader developments across Protestant and Catholic
Europe, Mills shows how the institutionalization of English
scholarship, and the later English attempt to influence the Eastern
Christian churches, were bound up with the international struggle
to establish a commercial foothold in the Levant. He argues that
these connections would endure until the shift of British
commercial and imperial interests to the Indian subcontinent in the
second half of the eighteenth century fostered new currents of
intellectual life at home.
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