The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 20167
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004338623
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004328143
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is an edited volume comprising 13 full-length chapters totalling 354 pages. They result from a conference organised by Loop and Burnett in Nov. 2013 in the context of the HERA-funded project ‘Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship’. Additionally, Loop invited a number of other scholars to contribute. The book is the first comprehensive study of the beginning of Arabic learning in Europe, from Iberia to Istanbul and from Sweden to Italy. The chapters are written by leading international experts and are based on years of research in primary (printed and unprinted) archival sources. They point to differences between the study of Arabic in the Catholic (focus on mission and spoken Arabic) and the Protestant world (focus on Bible exegesis and classical Arabic). The contributions also consider the importance of non-institutional, private and solitary settings of Arabic learning. The book was conceptualised by Loop, who also carried out the greatest part of the editorial work (90%) and is the sole author of the introduction (5K words). This is reflected in the order that the names of the editors appear on the cover. Loop also researched and single-authored chapter 9 (10K words), a pioneering and comprehensive study on the European ‘discovery’ of Arabic poetry and its use as teaching material in Early Modern textbooks. Loop analysis numerous printed and unprinted source, many for the first time ever, and shows how European scholars first translated Arabic poetry and started to get a grip on the difficult and alien system of Arabic prosody.
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- English abstract
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