Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) / by Robert Jones.

• Superior document: History of Oriental Studies ; Volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Jones, John Robert, 1952-
• TeilnehmendeR: Jones, John Robert, 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: History of Oriental studies ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"From the first Arabic grammar printed at Granada in 1505 to the Arabic editions of the Dutch scholar Thomas Erpenius (d.1624), some audacious scholars - supported by powerful patrons and inspired by several of the greatest minds of the Renaissance - introduced, for the first time, the study of...

Table of Contents

• Part I. Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624): Introductory Remarks
• 1. 'The Books'
• 2. 'The Teachers'
• 3. 'The Rules'
• Supplement
• Part II. The Arabic and Persian Studies of Giovan Battista Raimondi (c. 1536-1614): 4. The Alphabetum Arabicum
• 5. The Grammars of 1592
• 6. The Liber Tasriphi
• 7. Arabic Grammar Translated in Manuscript
• 8. Grammars of Persian Translated in Manuscript
• Concluding Remarks
• Appendix 1. The Identification of a copy of Bartholomaeus Radtmann's Introductio in linguam arabicam, Frankfurt a.d. Oder, 1592, now in the British Library
• Appendix 2. Systems of Transliteration
• Appendix 3. Saltini's Manuscript Descriptions Extended
• Appendix 4. Raimondi's General Comments on Arabic and Persian and Other Languages
• Appendix 5. Raimondi's Latin Translation of a Passage from Avicenna's Arabic Canon
• Appendix 6. The List of Grammars and Dictionaries in Raimondi's MS. Catalogue with Their Identification and Present-Day Location
• Appendix 7. Raimondi's Parsing of a Passage from the Lead Books of Granada-- Bibliography
• Index.