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This volume deals with the remarkably widespread interest in Arabic in seventeenth-century England among Biblical scholars and theologians, natural philosophers and Fellows of the Royal Society, and others. It led to the institutionalisation of Arabic studies at Oxford and Cambridge Universities where Arabic chairs were set up, and immense manuscript collections were established and utilised.
Fourteen historians examine the extent and sources of this Arabic interest in areas ranging from religion, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, and alchemy to botany. Arabic is shown to have been a significant component of the rise of Protestant intellectual tradition and the evolution of secular scholarship at universities.
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Intellectual life, Arabists, Civilization, Arab Civilization, Study and teaching, Arabic philology, Arab influences, History, Civilization, arab, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714, Great britain, intellectual life, Great britain, civilizationPlaces
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The 'Arabick' interest of the natural philosophers in seventeenth-century England
1994, E.J. Brill
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9004098887 9789004098886
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Consists of essays by the participants of a 1986 symposium held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.
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