Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624)

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Part 1
Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505–1624)
	Introductory Remarks
		1	The Difficulties
			2	The Achievement
			3	Dramatis Personae
			4	Middle Ages to Renaissance: Continuity
			5	Middle Ages to Renaissance: Discontinuity
			6	Spain
	Chapter 1
		The Books
			1	Manuscript Acquisition
				2	Arabists Abroad
				3	Agents
				4	Eastern Christians in Europe
				5	The Spoils of War
				6	Vienna
				7	Tunis
				8	Lepanto
				9	Hungary
				10	Piracy
				11	The Value of Plunder to Arabic Studies
	Chapter 2
		The Teachers
			1	Captives and Converts
				2	Leo Africanus
				3	Paul Willich
				4	Darwīsh Ibrāhīm
				5	Neophytes at Rome
				6	François de Boulogne
				7	Juan Andrés
				8	ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad
				9	Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī
				10	Ḥusayn of Buda
	Chapter 3
		The Rules
			1	Preamble
				2	Pedro de Alcalá
				3	Leo Africanus to Nicolaus Clenardus
				4	Guillaume Postel and Teseo Ambrogio
				5	Mid-Century Polyglot Handbooks
				6	Jakob Christmann and Ruthger Spey
				7	The Medicean Grammars
				8	The Medicean Grammars in Europe
				9	Joseph Justus Scaliger and Franciscus Raphelengius
				10	Thomas Erpenius
				11	1620–1624
	Supplement
Part 2
The Arabic and Persian Studies of Giovanni Battista Raimondi (c. 1536–1614)
	Chapter 4
		 The Alphabetum Arabicum
			1	Introduction
				Figura
				2	Arabic Script in the Alphabetum arabicum
				3	Arabic Script in other Renaissance Arabic Grammars
				Potestas
				4	Arabic Vocalization. Imāla
				5	Vocalization in the Alphabetum arabicum
				6	Arabic Consonants in the Alphabetum arabicum
				7	Arabic Consonants in other Renaissance Arabic Grammars
				8	Conclusion
	Chapter 5
		The Grammars of 1592
			1	The Ājurrūmiyya within the Islamic Grammatical Tradition
				2	The Ājurrūmiyya within the European Grammatical Tradition
				3	The Rome Edition of 1592
				4	The Kāfiya
				5	Conclusion
	Chapter 6
		The Liber Tasriphi
			1	Introduction
				2	Arabic Terms Preserved
				3	Translations ad verbum and ad sensum
				4	Postel and the Morphology of the Verb
				5	Conclusion
	Chapter 7
		Arabic Grammar Translated in Manuscript
			1	A Note on the Derived Forms of the Verb
				2	Kitāb Miʾat ʿāmil
	Chapter 8
		Grammars of Persian Translated in Manuscript
			1	Introduction
				2	Qawānīn al-furs
				3	Other Grammars of Persian
	Concluding Remarks
	Appendix 1
		The Identification of a copy of Bartholomaeus Radtmann’s Introductio in linguam arabicam, Frankfurt a.d. Oder, 1592, now in the British Library
	Appendix 2
		Arabic Transliteration
			1	The Arabic Alphabet
				2	The Arabic Lord’s Prayer in Latin Script
	Appendix 3
		Raimondi and Saltini
	Appendix 4
		Raimondi on Arabic, Persian and other Languages
	Appendix 5
		Raimondi’s Latin Translation from Avicenna’s Arabic Canon
	Appendix 6
		Raimondi’s Grammar and Dictionary List
				Raimondi’s Grammars and Dictionaries Identified
	Appendix 7
		Raimondi and the Lead Books of Granada
	Bibliography
	Index