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Subject(s)

• Hottinger, Johann Heinrich 1620-1667 [Browse]
• Islamic civilization [Browse]
• Civilization, Arab [Browse]
• Arab countries—History [Browse]

Series

• Oxford-Warburg studies [More in this series]
• Oxford-Warburg Studies [More in this series]

Summary note

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 Based on printed books and a great number of unpublished and hitherto unknown manuscripts, the book assesses hisscholarship in the context of seventeenth-century oriental studies and confessional rivalries. The book contains

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 10, 2013).
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; LEXICA; EDITIONS; WORKS BY HOTTINGER; LIBRARIES; Introduction; 1.Ioh. Henricus Hottingerus Tigurinus; THE LEIDEN YEARS WITH JACOBUS GOLIUS (1640-1641); THE FIRST YEARS IN ZURICH (1641-1655); The Schola Tigurinorum Carolina and its significance for Hottinger; Theodor Bibliander; The nature of Antichrist; THE HEIDELBERG YEARS (1655-1661); 'O FATA ACERBA ET ATROCIA'145 (1661-1667)
• 2.Arabic and Islamic Studies in Zurich and HeidelbergISLAMIC STUDIES IN ZURICH1; Excursus: Equipping the Reformed world with Arabic printing presses; A STUDENT MANUAL FOR THE HISTORYOF THE ISLAMIC WORLD; THE TEACHING OF ORIENTAL PHILOLOGY; Grammatica Orientalis; Thesaurus Philologicus; HOTTINGER AND THE HISTORY OF COMPARATIVE SEMITIC PHILOLOGY; SOAP AGAINST THE SMUT OF BARBARISM: SMEGMA ORIENTALE; LEXICON HARMONICUM; Excursus: Hottinger and Hiob Ludolf; 3.Defenders of the Truth; ORIENTAL PHILOLOGY AND CONFESSIONAL POLEMICS; THE CASE OF EUTYCHIUS; ARABIC AND THE HISTORY OF THE HEBREW SCRIPT
• HOTTINGER AND LOUIS CAPPELEXERCITATIONES ANTI-MORINIANAE; A KUFIC KORAN AND THE VOWEL POINT CONTROVERSY; 4.Mapping the Literary History of the Orient; EARLY MODERN ATTEMPTS TO CATALOGUE ORIENTAL LITERATURE; THE PROMTUARIUM SIVE BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS; COLLECTING ARABIC MANUSC; Islamic sources; Christian, Samaritan, Jewish, and Sabian sources; MANUSCRIPT CULTURE; TROUBLES WITH THE KORAN; Amad ibn `Alī; Clandestine inter-library loans; CLASSIFYING ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS; CATALOGUING THE ORIENT; BIBLIOTHECA ARABICA; ENCYCLOPEDIA ORIENTALIS; 5.Islam and the History of the Church
• WRITING CHURCH HISTORYHISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA NOVI TESTAMENTI (1651-1655); De Muhammedismo; Ecclesia Orientalis; HISTORIA ECCLESIASTICA NOVI TESTAMENTI (1665-1667); HISTORIA ORIENTALIS; The life and teaching of Muhammad; The Koran and the religious history of the East; The Koran and pre-Islamic idolatry; The Koran and early Christianity; The Koran and the history of Socinianism; Epilogue; Bibliography; HOTTINGER'S WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT; PRIMARY LITERATURE; SECONDARY LITERATURE; MANUSCRIPTS; Berne, Burgerbibliothek; Geneva, University Library; Göttingen, Universtitätsbibliothek
• Groningen, University LibraryHamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek; Kassel, Universitätsbibliothek, Landes- und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel; Leiden, University Library; London, British Library (BL); London, Lincoln ́s Inn Library; London, National Archive in Kew, Richmond; München, Bayrische Staatsbibliothek; Oxford, Bodleian Library; Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek; St. Gallen, Vadiana Library (VadSlg); Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek; Zurich, Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich (StAZH); Zurich, Zentralbibliothek (ZBZ); Correspondence with Bodmer
• Correspondence with Buxtorf

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ISBN

• 0-19-180480-0
• 0-19-150470-X

OCLC

1336401489

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