Alastair Hamilton, Francis Richard

André Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France

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Produktbeschreibung

Andre Du Ryer was an important and influential seventeenth-century orientalist and diplomat. After reconstructing his diplomatic career, the authors assess Du Ryer's contribution to Turkish and Persian studies, his influential translation of the Quran, and his manuscript collection. He emerges as an important and influential figure whose significance has never previously been appreciated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 325mm x 249mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1633g
• ISBN-13: 9780197144022
• ISBN-10: 0197144020
• Artikelnr.: 26938498

Autorenporträt

Alastair Hamilton, former Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at Leiden University and Professor emeritus of the History of the Radical Reformation at the University of Amsterdam, is the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, Warburg Institute. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Francis Richard, former Keeper of Persian Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, is now in charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Musée du Louvre.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: Between Marcigny and Cairo
2: The Turkish Language
3: A Champion of Persian Literature
4: Translator of the Quran
Appendix One: Correspondence, appointments, safeconducts and attestations
Appendix Two: Du Ryer's prefaces and dedicatory epistles
Appendix Three: Du Ryer's reports and addresses
Appendix Four: Du Ryer's manuscript collection
Bibliography
Index