Notes on Contributors
Asaph Ben-Tov
is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (Leiden, 2009) and co-editor of Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd (Leiden, 2013) and of Knowledge and Profanation (Leiden, 2019). His biography of the seventeenth-century Orientalist Johann Ernst Gerhard is forthcoming, and he is working on a wide-ranging study of Oriental scholarship in Germany, 1600-1750.
Alexander Bevilacqua
is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College. He is the author of The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment (Harvard, 2019) and the co-editor of Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations (Chicago, 2019).
Maurits H. van den Boogert
is the Publishing Director for Middle East, Islam, and African Studies at Brill, the scholarly publisher in Leiden. A former PhD student of Alastair Hamilton, he is the author of a work on the legal framework of Ottoman-European relations in the eighteenth century, and of Aleppo Observed, a work about Alexander and Patrick Russell and their eighteenth-century publications about Ottoman Syria.
Charles Burnett
is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the
Warburg Institute, University of London. Among his books are The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (1997), Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context (2009) and Numerals and Arithmetic in the Middle Ages (2010). He also edited, together with Keiji Yamamoto, of The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abū Maʿšar (2 vols., Leiden 2019).
Ziad Elmarsafy
is Professor of Comparative Literature at King’s College London. He is the author of The Enlightenment Qur’an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam (2009) – a book heavily influenced by Alastair Hamilton – and Esoteric Islam in Modern French Thought: Massignon, Corbin, Jambet (forthcoming 2021).
Mordechai Feingold
is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the Republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald, and Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord: Scholarship and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible (Leiden, 2018). He is currently writing an intellectual biography of John Rainolds.
Aurélien Girard
is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and researcher in the Centre d’Études et de Recherche en Histoire Culturelle. He has edited Connaître l’Orient dans l’Europe du XVIIe siècle, a special issue of the journal Dix-septième siècle (2015). He is currently completing a volume on Books and Eastern Christian Confessions in the Early Modern Period.
Bernard Heyberger
is Directeur d’Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Among his publications are Les chrétiens du Proche-Orient au temps de la Réforme catholique (Rome, 1994), an edition of Hanna Dyâb, D’Alep à Paris. Les pérégrinations d’un jeune Syrien au temps de Louis XIV (Arles, 2015) and Les chrétiens d’Orient (Paris, 2017).
Robert Irwin
was formerly a Lecturer in the Mediaeval History Department of the University of St Andrews, and he is currently a Senior Research Associate of the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Literature of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. His publications include The Arabian Nights: A Companion (London, 1994), For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies (London, 2006) and Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton, 2018), as well as eight novels.
Tarif Khalidi
is Shaykh Zayid Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies Emeritus at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (Cambridge, 1994), The Muslim Jesus (Harvard, 2001), The Qur’an, A New Translation (London 2008), Images of Muhammad (New York, 2009) and An Anthology of Arabic Literature (Edinburgh, 2016).
Jan Marten Ivo Klaver
is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Urbino. His publications include Geology and Religious Sentiment 1829–1859 (Leiden, 1997), The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley (Leiden, 2006), Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World 1761–1881 (Oxford, 2009) and ‘The Apologia’ in The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman (Oxford, 2018).
Jill Kraye
is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Philosophy and Honorary Fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London. Her publications include Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy (Aldershot, 2002) and, most recently, the jointly edited volume The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism (London, 2019). She is an editor of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes and of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.
Jan Loop
is Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Kent and PI in the ERC Synergy Project ‘The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion.’ He is the author of Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667). Arabic and Islamic Studies in the 17th Century (Oxford, 2013) and co-editor of The Learning and Teaching of Arabic in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2017).
Noel Malcolm
is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His recent books include an edition of Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford, 2012), Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (London, 2015) and Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750 (Oxford, 2019).
Martin Mulsow
is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Erfurt and Director of the Gotha Research Center. Among his publications are Prekäres Wissen. Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (Berlin, 2012) and Enlightenment Underground. Radical Germany 1680–1720 (Charlottesvillle, 2015).
Francis Richard
is retired keeper of Persian manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), former director of the Islamic Art Department at the Louvre, of the Bulac Library (Paris) and of the French Institute for Studies in Central Asia. He has published catalogues of Persian manuscripts (1989 and 2013), as well as books and articles about missionaries, travellers, manuscripts, controversies and exchanges with the Middle East in the early modern period.
Gerald J. Toomer
is Professor Emeritus of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. His recent publications include John Selden: A Life in Scholarship (Oxford, 2009). He is completing an intellectual biography of Christianus Ravius.
Arnoud Vrolijk
is Interpres Legati Warneriani and Curator of Oriental Manuscripts and Rare Books at Leiden University Library. He has published extensively on the Leiden collections and the history of Oriental scholarship in the Netherlands.
Nicholas Warner
is an architect specializing in the conservation of monuments and a visiting research scholar at the American University in Cairo. His research focus is on the city of Cairo, his home since 1993. This interest is reflected in publications such as The Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue (Cairo, 2005) and The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View (London, Oxford, 2006).
Jan Just Witkam
is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Manuscript Culture at Leiden University. At present he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts. Since 1978 he has extensively published on aspects of Islamic book culture. His publications can be read at <www.janjustwitkam.nl>.
Joanna Weinberg
is Professor Emerita of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics at the University of Oxford. She has translated and edited the works of the Jewish Renaissance scholar Azariah de’ Rossi. More recently, she collaborated with Anthony Grafton on the Hebrew studies of the Huguenot humanist Isaac Casaubon (Cambridge MA, 2011); and with Scott Mandelbrote she edited Jewish Books and Their Readers: Aspects of Jewish and Christian Intellectual Life in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2016).