Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Rediscovering Objects From Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I Changing Perceptions
	1 Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe
		Historical Context
		Renaissance and Post-Renaissance
		The Enlightenment
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	2 Reading Ottoman Banners in the State of the Church
		Beyond Texts: A Roman Orientalist Struggling With Objects
		The Ottoman Banner in the Holy House of Loreto
		Beyond Loreto: The Reading of the Inscription On the Urbino Banner
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II Protagonists
	3 Oluf Gerhard Tychsen: Orientalist and Object Interpreter in Rostock
		Networks for Discussing Objects
		First-Hand Study
		Accurate Images
		Palaeographic Expertise
		Scientific Analysis and Historical Bias
		Conceptions of Self and Other
		Notes
		Bibliography
	4 Beyond Manuscripts: Maronite Christians as Object Interpreters in Early Modern Europe
		The Prince of Mount Lebanon: Habaisci Spaada
		Simon Assemani
		Translating Arabic for All Fields of Knowledge – Miguel Casiri, Polymath
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part III Whose Heritage?
	5 The “Baptistère De Saint Louis”: The Making of a “Historical Monument”
		The Earliest Descriptions of the Baptistère
		Aubin-Louis Millin and the Making of the Baptistère De Saint Louis
		Epilogue
		Notes
		Bibliography
	6 “Nuestros Árabes”?: The Rediscovery of Spanish Islamic Architecture From an Enlightened Gaze
		A Renewed Cultural Awareness
		The Foreign Gaze
		Rejection and Acceptance of the Legacy of Al-Andalus
		New Lights
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index