Manuscripts, politics and Oriental studies : life and collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in context

Körperschaft: Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
Weitere Verfasser: Liebrenz, Boris , [HerausgeberIn]
Rauch, Christoph , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019].
Umfang/Format: pages cm.
Schriftenreihe: Islamic manuscripts and books ; 19
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als Forscher / Holger Preissler
  • Semitic studies at the Berlin University during Wetzstein's lifetime / Ludmila Hanisch
  • Growing collections and rising expectations: the endeavour to catalogue manuscripts in Arabic script at the Royal Library in Berlin / Christoph Rauch
  • The Wetzstein collection at Tubingen University Library: its history, its content, and its reception in Oriental studies / Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf
  • The Quranic collections acquired by Wetzstein / Francois Deroche
  • Johann Gottfried Wetzstein's manuscripts with Arabic popular stories / Jan Just Witkam
  • The consul and the king: Wetzstein and Alexander / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
  • Wetzstein in wonderland: Arabian epic manuscripts in the Wetzstein collections / Claudia Ott
  • Arabic manuscripts and books from the bequest of Wetzstein / Boris Liebrenz, Christoph Rauch
  • Collecting Islamic manuscripts at the Munich Court Library in the nineteenth century: an acquisition history / Helga Rebhan
  • Manuscript acquisitions and their later movements: a further note about the case of the Lewis Quranic manuscript / Alba Fedeli
  • Manuscript ownership and readership at the American University of Beirut at the turn of the twentieth century / Kaoukab Chebaro, Samar El Mikati El Kaissi
  • Looking at man in the state of nature: Johann Gottfried Wetzstein on the Bedouin of the Syrian steppe / Astrid Meier
  • From Leipzig to Damascus: Wetzstein as a broker of Arabic prints in Syria / Boris Liebrenz
  • Bemerkungen zu den hinterlassenen Papieren Johann Gottfried Wetzsteins / Ingrid Huhn
  • Living in mid-nineteenth-century Damascus: insights into the urban residences of foreigners and locals / Anke Scharrahs
  • Arabist and consul in Damascus: Sir Richard Burton and the problematic nature of his translation of the thousand and one nights / Robert Irwin.