Jan Loop
Biographic Data
| ID | 9150291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Loop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Loop |
| SIGNATURE | LOOP J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7586-3685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Looting and Learning
This essay examines the relationship between war and European Qur’anic studies from the mediaeval period to the nineteenth century. It surveys manuscript sources that bear traces of wartime looting and the work of Muslim captives and converts. It argues that war played a recurring role in European oriental studies, helping to shape its practices, aims, and geography. In their early stages, war contributed to a broader shift in academic oriental s…
Scholarship between Europe and the Levant
Scholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work a…
The Qur'an in Comparison, and the Birth of ‘scriptures’
Early modern Europeans developed several ways of thinking about the Qur'an and the person whom they took to be its author, the Prophet Muḥammad. This article looks at two distinct traditions of reading the Qur'an as law and as literature and shows how these traditions intersected and eventually merged. Together, they made the Qur'an fruitful for ‘thinking with’ under a variety of headings. Philologists, not philosophes, advanced this long-term pr…
Introduction
This introductory article follows one of the most widely read and used Qur'an editions in Christian Europe, Theodor Bibliander's Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran, printed in Basel in 1543 and in a second edition in 1550. The article analyses some of the interpretations, appropriations, and polemical uses that this Qur'an version was exposed to during an age of confessional rivalry and polit…
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe
Johann Heinrich Hottinger
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 unkno…
Divine Poetry? Early Modern European Orientalists on the Beauty of the Koran
This article discusses Western attitudes to the style of the Koran from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The subject is of particular interest because the question of the Koran's aesthetic value is ultimately linked with the Islamic belief that the inimitable beauty of Muhammad's revelation is the very proof of its divine origin (i'jāz al-Qur'ān). Given the apologetic function of this doctrine in Islamic theology, many early modern E…
Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620–1667) and the “Historia Orientalis”
Generally neglected by scholars of the history of oriental studies, Johann Heinrich Hottinger's Historia Orientalis (1651, 2nd ed. 1660) is one of the most significant contributions to the history of Islam to have been published in the seventeenth century. This article analyses Hottinger's interest in Islam and in Arabic sources across the range of his writings and his correspondence, with a special focus on the Historia Orientalis. It discusses …
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Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620–1667) and the “Historia Orientalis”
Generally neglected by scholars of the history of oriental studies, Johann Heinrich Hottinger's Historia Orientalis (1651, 2nd ed. 1660) is one of the most significant contributions to the history of Islam to have been published in the seventeenth century. This article analyses Hottinger's interest in Islam and in Arabic sources across the range of his writings and his correspondence, with a special focus on the Historia Orientalis. It discusses …
Divine Poetry? Early Modern European Orientalists on the Beauty of the Koran
This article discusses Western attitudes to the style of the Koran from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The subject is of particular interest because the question of the Koran's aesthetic value is ultimately linked with the Islamic belief that the inimitable beauty of Muhammad's revelation is the very proof of its divine origin (i'jāz al-Qur'ān). Given the apologetic function of this doctrine in Islamic theology, many early modern E…
Johann Heinrich Hottinger
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 unkno…
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe
The Qur'an in Comparison, and the Birth of ‘scriptures’
Early modern Europeans developed several ways of thinking about the Qur'an and the person whom they took to be its author, the Prophet Muḥammad. This article looks at two distinct traditions of reading the Qur'an as law and as literature and shows how these traditions intersected and eventually merged. Together, they made the Qur'an fruitful for ‘thinking with’ under a variety of headings. Philologists, not philosophes, advanced this long-term pr…
Introduction
This introductory article follows one of the most widely read and used Qur'an editions in Christian Europe, Theodor Bibliander's Machumetis Saracenorum principis, eiusque successorum vitae, ac doctrina, ipseque Alcoran, printed in Basel in 1543 and in a second edition in 1550. The article analyses some of the interpretations, appropriations, and polemical uses that this Qur'an version was exposed to during an age of confessional rivalry and polit…
Scholarship between Europe and the Levant
Scholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work a…
Looting and Learning
This essay examines the relationship between war and European Qur’anic studies from the mediaeval period to the nineteenth century. It surveys manuscript sources that bear traces of wartime looting and the work of Muslim captives and converts. It argues that war played a recurring role in European oriental studies, helping to shape its practices, aims, and geography. In their early stages, war contributed to a broader shift in academic oriental s…
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