Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th–17th Centuries

Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge

Sonja Brentjes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781409405337
• eBook ISBN: 9781000202809
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This collection of Sonja Brentjes's articles deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical concerns. The first is how we should understand the relationship between Christian and Muslim societies, in the period between the translations from Arabic into Latin (10th - 13th centuries) and before the Napoleonic invasion of Ottoman Egypt (1798). The second concern is the "Western" discourse about the decline or even disappearance of the sciences in late medieval and early modern Islamic societies and, third, the construction of Western Asian natures and cultures in Catholic and Protestant books, maps and pictures. The articles discuss institutional and personal relationships, describe how Catholic or Protestant travellers learned about and accessed Muslim scholarly literature, and uncover contradictory modes of reporting, evaluating or eradicating the visited cultures and their knowledge.

INDEX

Abad, see Ibadi, al-: V 396

Abadan: IV 5–6

Abbas, Shah, see Abbàs, ‘Abbas I, ‘Abbās: IV 3, 13, 19

King: IV 29, 33, 36, 42, 48, 51

Abbas/Abbàs: IV 19, 24, 26, 37

King: IV 24, 26, 31, 39–41, 49

‘Abbas I, Shah, see Abbas/Abbàs; ‘Abbās: xxii; I 452, 456; III 6, 19; VI 232, 239–10, 249; VIII 16–17, 19

king of the Persians: IV 19

‘Abbas II, Shah: xxii

‘Abbās, Šāh, see Abbas, Abbàs, ‘Abbas I: V 379, 393

Abbasabad: IV 41

Abbasì, portus, see Bandar/Bander ‘Abbas; Combrù; Gambrun; Gombroon; Kombrù: IV 41

portus: IV 55

‘Abdallah b. Asad, see Ben Assad, Abdollah

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi: VIII 38

book of the (fixed) stars: VIII 38

‘Abd al-Wahid al-Maghribi, see Maghribi, al-, ‘Abd al-Wahid: VI 236

Abdì, Moullà, see ‘Abdi, Mulla: V 408

‘Abdi, Mulla, see Abdì, Moullà: V 408

Abdilla, Mahummed, see Abu Abdillah; ben Abdilla, Mohamed; Benabdilla, Mohamed; Ibn ‘Abdallāh, Muḥammad; Mahummed-Abdilla: V 399

Abhar, see Abher

Abher, see Abhar: IV 21

Abilfedea, see aboulfetah, Abu l-Feda/Abulfeda/Abul-fœda, Ismael; Abu l-Fida’/Abū l-Fidā’; Abufedda, Ismaël: VIII 33

aboulfetah, see Abilfedea; Abu l-Feda/Abulfeda/Abul-fœda, Ismael; Abu l-Fida’/Abū l-Fidā’; Abufedda, Ismaël: VII 37

Abu l-’Abbas al-Majusi, see Majusi, Abu l-’Abbas, al-: VI 236

Abu Abdillah, Mohamed, see Abdilla, Mahummed; ben Abdilla; Benabdilla, Mohamed; Ibn ‘Abdallāh, Muḥammad; Mahummed-Abdilla: V 400

De vnitate existendi principiorum: V 400

Abbu-Ally: V 398

Abu Bakr al-Razi, see Abubecr/Abu-becr; Abu-Becr; Razi, al-, Abu Bakr; Rhazis: I 442

Abu Bakr “S...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• I The interests of the Republic of Letters in the Middle East, 1550–1700
• II On the relation between the Ottoman Empire and the West European Republic of Letters (17th–18th centuries)
• III The presence of ancient secular and religious texts in the unpublished and printed writings of Pietro della Valle (1586–1652)
• IV Pietro della Valle’s Latin Geography of Safavid Iran (1624–1628): Introduction (with Volkmar Schüller)
• V Early modern Western European travellers in the Middle East and their reports about the sciences
• VI Pride and prejudice: the invention of a ‘historiography of science’ in the Ottoman and Safavid empires by European travellers and writers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• VII Peiresc’s interests in the Middle East and Northern Africa in respect to geography and cartography
• VIII Astronomy a temptation? On early modern encounters across the Mediterranean Sea
• Index