Description
| Summary: | 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 Based on printed books and a great number of unpublished and hitherto unknown manuscripts, the book assesses his scholarship in the context of seventeenth-century oriental studies and confessional rivalries.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.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780191504709
019150470X
1306182069
9781306182065
9780191804809
0191804800 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 10, 2013). |
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