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Johann Heinrich Hottinger. Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century

Loop, Jan (2013) Johann Heinrich Hottinger. Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century. Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-968214-0. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:47029)

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Abstract

The Reformed Church historian and orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) is a key figure in the history of Arabic and Islamic studies in early modern Europe. His life and his work have been almost completely neglected and there has never been a full-length study on Hottinger. This book presents a thorough documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. Based on printed books and a great number of unpublished and hitherto unknown manuscripts, the book assesses his scholarship in the context of seventeenth-century oriental studies and confessional rivalries. The book contains a biographical account of Hottinger and inserts him into the Zurich tradition of oriental studies, which can be traced back to Theodor Bibliander and Konrad Pellikan in the sixteenth century. It gives an account of his years as a student of Jacobus Golius in Leiden, where Hottinger copied and collected an impressive number of Arabic manuscripts on which he later based his teaching and his publications. The book explores Hottinger's network in the Protestant Republic of Letters and it contains studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as a teacher of the Arabic language, as a linguist who promoted a comparative approach to oriental languages, as a student of the history of Islam and as a Protestant who used his knowledge of Arabic and of Islam in the theological debates of the time.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: A General Works
A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship. The Humanities
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
Depositing User: Jan Loop
Date Deposited: 02 Feb 2015 17:30 UTC
Last Modified: 29 Sep 2021 09:57 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/47029 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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