Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies : : Life and Collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in context / / edited by Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch.

• Author: Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
• TeilnehmendeR: Liebrenz, Boris,; Rauch, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; German
• Series: Islamic Manuscripts and Books 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (461 pages).
• Notes: Collects papers originally presented at the symposium Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905): Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies, presented by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in cooperation with Orientalisches Institut der Unversität Leipzig, Feb. 19-21, 2015.

Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies commemorates the life and works of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) as a scholar, manuscript collector, and consul in Berlin and Damascus. Beyond research into Wetzstein's own time, special attention is given to the impact his efforts to acquire manuscripts have had until this day. Several contributions also illustrate contemporary developments that give context to his own career as a scholar and diplomat. The particular focus of this volume allows to explore the history of Oriental scholarship not purely through the lens of academic posts and publications but encourages us to discover lifes such as Wetzstein's, without academic stardom yet laying the material foundations of textual work for generations. Contributors are Kaoukab Chebaro; François Déroche; Faustina Doufikar-Aerts; Alba Fedeli; Ludmila Hanisch †; Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf; Ingeborg Huhn; Robert Irwin; Boris Liebrenz; Astrid Meier; Samar El Mikati El Kaissi; Claudia Ott; Holger Preißler †; Christoph Rauch; Helga Rebhan; Anke Scharrahs; Jan Just Witkam.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Introduction / Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch -- Berlin -- Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als Forscher / Holger Preißler † -- Semitic Studies at the University of Berlin during Wetzstein’s Lifetime / Ludmila Hanisch † -- Growing Collections and Rising Expectations / Christoph Rauch -- The Wetzstein Collections -- The Wetzstein Collection at Tübingen University Library / Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf -- The Quranic Collections Acquired by Wetzstein / François Déroche -- Johann Gottfried Wetzstein’s Manuscripts Containing Arabic Popular Stories / Jan Just Witkam -- The Consul and the King / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts -- Wetzstein in Wonderland / Claudia Ott -- Arabic Manuscripts and Books from the Bequest of Wetzstein / Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch -- Collecting Oriental Manuscripts -- Collecting Islamic Manuscripts at the Munich Court Library in the Nineteenth Century / Helga Rebhan -- Manuscript Acquisitions and Their Later Movements / Alba Fedeli -- Manuscript Ownership and Readership at the American University of Beirut at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Kaoukab Chebaro and Samar El Mikati El Kaissi -- Damascus -- Looking at Man in the State of Nature / Astrid Meier -- From Leipzig to Damascus / Boris Liebrenz -- Ergänzungen zu den hinterlassenen Papieren Johann Gottfried Wetzsteins / Ingeborg Huhn -- Living in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Damascus / Anke Scharrahs -- Arabist and Consul in Damascus / Robert Irwin -- Back Matter -- Index.