Simon Mill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Mill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mill |
| SIGNATURE | MILL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7729-5300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Commentary on Joshua Ehrlich’s The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
Türkenbeute in Halle
This article explores the history of the Türkenbeute manuscripts in Halle. The decades following the Ottoman defeat at Vienna in 1683 witnessed an influx into Central-Europe of Qur’ans, prayer books, Qur’anic commentaries, and legal compendia that had been looted from battlefields and conquered cities. Many such items found their way to Halle, where they came to stock the libraries attached to the complex of schools and the orphanage founded in 1…
Edward Pococke (1604–1691), Comparative Arabic-Hebrew Philology, and the Bible
Edward Pococke is best known to historians today as one of seventeenth-century Europe's preeminent discoverers of Islam. This article explores three less familiar aspects of his work as a scholar of Arabic: his comparative approach to the “Oriental” languages; his interest in the Arabic translations of the Bible; and his study of Judaeo-Arabic biblical criticism. It argues that foregrounding these concerns—developed throughout the course of his l…
Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans
Reviewed by: Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Masterpiece by Carter Vaughn Findley Simon Mills Carter Vaughn Findley. Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Masterpiece. The History of Oriental Studies, Volume 5. Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2019. pp. xv + 398. Hardback, €77.00/ $93.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-36312-0. Carter Vaughn Findley's Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ott…
Jean Gagnier’s De vita, et rebus gestis Mohammedis
Jean Gagnier’s De vita, et rebus gestis Mohammedis (1723) was the first substantial biography of the Prophet Muhammad translated by a European author directly from an authentic Muslim source. Familiar to Edward Gibbon and Voltaire, Gagnier’s work significantly shaped European understandings of the origins of Islam well into the nineteenth century. Yet Gagnier’s scholarship has not been examined in any depth since it was closely read by his contem…
Useful Enemies
A Commerce of Knowledge
A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600–1760 tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Syria, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book reconstructs the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, and brings to light the links between English commercial and diplomat…
A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe
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Türkenkriege und Adelskultur in Ostmitteleuropa vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert
Türkenkriege und Adelskultur in Ostmitteleuropa vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Robert Born and Sabine Jagodzinski, eds. Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 14. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2014. 356 pp. €55. - Volume 69 Issue 1
The Philosophy of Simondon
The recent resurgence of interest in the work of Gilbert Simondon within anglophone philosophy, despite the ongoing paucity of translations, is a sign of its relevance for several contemporary phil
Hesselink, Nathan
Anthropos , Seite 326 - 328
Sounds to soothe the soul
In South Korea today, following the death of a loved one, a small minority of people still choose to employ the services of a mudang (Korean ‘shaman’) to conduct a ritual known as ‘Ogu Kut’. In this lengthy ritual, the mudang summons the deceased's spirit into the ritual space, expresses the latter's feelings of unhappiness through song, dance, and the spoken word, and encourages the bereaved to express their own grievances within symbolic psycho…
T he T ale of the T hree Y oung B rothers
When discussing the essential characteristics of traditional Korean folk music, Korean musicians and scholars often refer to the emotional states of han and hŭng – forms of suffering and communally experienced joy, respectively. This article focusses in particular on hŭng (communal joy), exploring what this state involves, introducing the traditional performance contexts that are particularly associated with it and then investigating how musician…
Cultural anxiety 2.0
Since the naming by Tim O’Reilly of ‘Web 2.0’ to signify a new phase in web development and user experience, the ‘2.0’ suffix has been applied in a number of disciplines to indicate a similarly new direction in that field. However, this borrowed branding can fail to transfer the culture of development and original intentions of the ‘Web 2.0’ label, and may therefore be applied without detailed knowledge of its origins. There is a case for examini…
Transliteracy
Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This article defines transliteracy as “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio…
Edward Pococke (1604–1691), Comparative Arabic-Hebrew Philology, and the Bible
Edward Pococke is best known to historians today as one of seventeenth-century Europe's preeminent discoverers of Islam. This article explores three less familiar aspects of his work as a scholar of Arabic: his comparative approach to the “Oriental” languages; his interest in the Arabic translations of the Bible; and his study of Judaeo-Arabic biblical criticism. It argues that foregrounding these concerns—developed throughout the course of his l…
Cultural anxiety 2.0
Since the naming by Tim O’Reilly of ‘Web 2.0’ to signify a new phase in web development and user experience, the ‘2.0’ suffix has been applied in a number of disciplines to indicate a similarly new direction in that field. However, this borrowed branding can fail to transfer the culture of development and original intentions of the ‘Web 2.0’ label, and may therefore be applied without detailed knowledge of its origins. There is a case for examini…
Transliteracy
Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This article defines transliteracy as “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio…
Cultural anxiety 2.0
Since the naming by Tim O’Reilly of ‘Web 2.0’ to signify a new phase in web development and user experience, the ‘2.0’ suffix has been applied in a number of disciplines to indicate a similarly new direction in that field. However, this borrowed branding can fail to transfer the culture of development and original intentions of the ‘Web 2.0’ label, and may therefore be applied without detailed knowledge of its origins. There is a case for examini…
T he T ale of the T hree Y oung B rothers
When discussing the essential characteristics of traditional Korean folk music, Korean musicians and scholars often refer to the emotional states of han and hŭng – forms of suffering and communally experienced joy, respectively. This article focusses in particular on hŭng (communal joy), exploring what this state involves, introducing the traditional performance contexts that are particularly associated with it and then investigating how musician…
Sounds to soothe the soul
In South Korea today, following the death of a loved one, a small minority of people still choose to employ the services of a mudang (Korean ‘shaman’) to conduct a ritual known as ‘Ogu Kut’. In this lengthy ritual, the mudang summons the deceased's spirit into the ritual space, expresses the latter's feelings of unhappiness through song, dance, and the spoken word, and encourages the bereaved to express their own grievances within symbolic psycho…
Hesselink, Nathan
Anthropos , Seite 326 - 328
The Philosophy of Simondon
The recent resurgence of interest in the work of Gilbert Simondon within anglophone philosophy, despite the ongoing paucity of translations, is a sign of its relevance for several contemporary phil
Türkenkriege und Adelskultur in Ostmitteleuropa vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert
Türkenkriege und Adelskultur in Ostmitteleuropa vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Robert Born and Sabine Jagodzinski, eds. Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia 14. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2014. 356 pp. €55. - Volume 69 Issue 1
A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey in East Central Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Commerce of Knowledge
A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600–1760 tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Syria, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book reconstructs the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, and brings to light the links between English commercial and diplomat…
Jean Gagnier’s De vita, et rebus gestis Mohammedis
Jean Gagnier’s De vita, et rebus gestis Mohammedis (1723) was the first substantial biography of the Prophet Muhammad translated by a European author directly from an authentic Muslim source. Familiar to Edward Gibbon and Voltaire, Gagnier’s work significantly shaped European understandings of the origins of Islam well into the nineteenth century. Yet Gagnier’s scholarship has not been examined in any depth since it was closely read by his contem…
Useful Enemies
Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans
Reviewed by: Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Masterpiece by Carter Vaughn Findley Simon Mills Carter Vaughn Findley. Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Masterpiece. The History of Oriental Studies, Volume 5. Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2019. pp. xv + 398. Hardback, €77.00/ $93.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-36312-0. Carter Vaughn Findley's Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ott…
Edward Pococke (1604–1691), Comparative Arabic-Hebrew Philology, and the Bible
Edward Pococke is best known to historians today as one of seventeenth-century Europe's preeminent discoverers of Islam. This article explores three less familiar aspects of his work as a scholar of Arabic: his comparative approach to the “Oriental” languages; his interest in the Arabic translations of the Bible; and his study of Judaeo-Arabic biblical criticism. It argues that foregrounding these concerns—developed throughout the course of his l…
Türkenbeute in Halle
This article explores the history of the Türkenbeute manuscripts in Halle. The decades following the Ottoman defeat at Vienna in 1683 witnessed an influx into Central-Europe of Qur’ans, prayer books, Qur’anic commentaries, and legal compendia that had been looted from battlefields and conquered cities. Many such items found their way to Halle, where they came to stock the libraries attached to the complex of schools and the orphanage founded in 1…
Commentary on Joshua Ehrlich’s The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
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