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This book is the first documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. It includes a biographical account of Hottinger, studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as teacher of the Arabic language, as student of the history of Islam, and as a Protestant who used his work to engage in anti-Catholic polemics.

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 Based on printed books and a great number of unpublished and hitherto unknown manuscripts, the book assesses his scholarship in the context of seventeenth-century oriental studies and confessional rivalries

1. A polyglot traveller in the republic of letters / Jan Loop -- 2. Between literature and history / Ziad Elmarsafy -- 3. Islam as a 'rational' religion: early modern European views / Noel Malcolm -- 4. Thomas Erpenius, Oriental scholarship and the art of persuasion / Arnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg -- 5. From Astronomica to Exotica: Jacob Golius's edition of al-Farghānī's On the science of the stars in comparison with the earlier versions / Charles Burnett -- 6. An unrecognized 'critique' of John Selden's Historie of tithes: John Gregory's 1634 edition of View of the civile and ecclesiasticall law by Thomas Ridley / Mordechai Feingold -- 7. Ravius in the East / Gerald J. Toomer -- 8. Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im Jahr 1650 / Martin Mulsow -- 9. The errant eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the monasteries of Suhāg / Nicholas Warner -- 10. Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l'érudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) / Aurélien Girard -- 11. Historia Literaria Alcorani: two Lutheran scholars chronicling Oriental scholarship at the turn of the Eighteenth century / Asaph Ben-Tov -- 12. Fasting: the limits of Catholic confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the Eighteenth century / Bernard Heyberger -- 13. Away with all the Greeks: ancients, moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont's 'Oratio de lingua Arabica' (1715) / Alexander Bevilacqua -- 14. Richard Pococke and the natural curiosities of the East / Jan Marten Ivo Klaver -- 15. Patrick Russell and the Arabian nights manuscripts / Maurits H. van den Boogert -- 16. Volney's Meditations on ruins and empires / Robert Irwin -- 17. Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des années 1795-1798 vus de Bagdad / Francis Richard -- 18. Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848-1856 / Tarif Khalidi -- 19. Snouck Hurgronje's Consular ambitions / Jan Just Witkam.