Through the eyes of the beholder : the Holy Land, 1517-1713 / / edited by Judy A. Hayden and Nabil I. Matar.

• Superior document: Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, v. 97
• TeilnehmendeR: Hayden, Judy A.; Matar, N. I. 1949-
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 97.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The collection examines the view of holiness in the “Holy Land” through the writings of pilgrims, travelers, and missionaries. The period extends from 1517, the Ottoman conquest of Syria and Palestine, to the Franco-British treaty of Utrecht in 1713 and the consolidation of European hegemony over the Mediterranean. The writers in the collection include Christians (Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic), Muslims, and Jews, who originate from countries such as Sweden, England, France, Holland, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Syria. This book is the first to juxtapose writers of different backgrounds and languages, to emphasize the holiness of the land in a number of traditions, and to ask whether holiness was inherent in geography or a product of the piety of the writers. Contributors are: Mohammad Asfour, Hasan Baktir, Richard Coyle, Judy A. Hayden, Nabil I. Matar, Joachim Östlund, Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, Julia Schleck, Mazin Tadros and Galina Yermolenko.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction: Pilgrims and Travelers – In Search of the ‘Holy’ in Holy Land / Judy A. Hayden and Nabil I. Matar -- 2. An Arabic Orthodox Account of the Holy Land, c. 1590's / Nabil I. Matar and Mohammad Asfour -- 3. Early Modern Russian Pilgrims in the Holy Land / Galina I. Yermolenko -- 4. Textual Truths and Lived Experience. George Sandys’s A Relation of a Journey begun an: domini 1610 and William Biddulph’s The Travels of certain Englishmen / Julia Schleck -- 5. Rescuing the Holy Land in Friar Jean Boucher’s Bouquet sacre compose des plus belles fleurs de la Terre sainte / Richard Coyle -- 6. Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname and the Holiness of Jerusalem / Hasan Baktir -- 7. Joseph Besson, French Nationalism and Possessing the Holy Land: In Defense of the Jesuit Missionary Enterprise in Greater Syria, 1625–1660 / Mazin Tadros -- 8. Cornelis de Bruyn: Painter, Traveler, Curiosity Collector—Spy? / Judy A. Hayden -- 9. The Sufi and the Chaplain: ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī and Henry Maundrell / Nabil I. Matar -- 10. Early Modern Jewish Prayer in and for Israel / Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz -- 11. A Lutheran in the Holy Land: Michael Eneman’s Journey, 1711–12 / Joachim Östlund -- 12 Conclusion / Nabil I. Matar -- Index.