The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in ear
D’Ohsson’s Tableau général de l’Empire othoman is the most authoritative, magnificently illustrated work of the Enlightenment on Islam and the Ottomans. A practical work for statesmen, the Tableau del
Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in the Levant,1671-1674, is an account of the travels in Syria, Turkey and Egypt by one of the best known scholar-travellers of his day who collected manuscripts and
In The Wahhabis seen through European Eyes (1772-1830) Giovanni Bonacina offers an account of the early reaction in Europe to the rise of the Wahhabi movement in Arabia.
In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gabor Karman reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian diplomat, interpreter, orientalist, Jakab Harsanyi Nagy.
