George Strachan Of The Mearns

Author : Tom McInally
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474466249
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Strachan of the Mearns written by Tom McInally and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an up-to-date study of the life of George Strachan (1572 - 1635), early 17th century Scottish Humanist scholar, Orientalist and traveller.

Author : Tom McInally
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474491280
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Strachan of the Mearns written by Tom McInally and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the life of George Strachan (1572-1635), early 17th century Scottish Humanist scholar, Orientalist and traveller. The book draws on a wealth of newly discovered archival material to offer new insights into Strachan's life and work, as well as utilising recent scholarship on the relationship between the cultures and religions of East and West. The book explains the voyages that the Catholic exile took to many of the Catholic courts of Europe as a scholar and spy before turning eastwards to embark upon a 22 year journey around the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires. By becoming fully literate in Arabic and Farsi he was able to gain a unique knowledge of Eastern societies. Strachan's collection of Arabic and Farsi texts on Islam, philosophy and humanities, which he translated and sent to Europe for the advancement of European knowledge of Islam and Islamic societies, became Strachan's real intellectual legacy.

Author : C. Edmund Bosworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195881X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intrepid Scot written by C. Edmund Bosworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In this book Edmund Bosworth looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels. These took him through a dangerously Catholic Southern Europe to a dangerously Muslim Greece and Istanbul en route for his pilgrimage destination of the Holy Land; on another occasion he went through North Africa and returned circuitously via Central and Eastern Europe; but he was stopped in his tracks whilst endeavouring to reach the court of Prester John in Ethiopia, when he fell into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition and narrowly escaped a horrible death. Lithgow was one of several men of his time who journeyed eastwards, some as far as Persia and India, but unlike many others, he has not been the subject of a special study. Bosworth now places him within the context of the present interest in perceptions of the Islamic world and of the 'Orient' and 'Orientals' in early modern Europe. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it.

Author : Giorgio Levi Della Vida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Strachan written by Giorgio Levi Della Vida and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900434604X
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 10 Ottoman and Safavid Empires (1600-1700) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 10 (CMR 10) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in the Ottoman and Safavid empires. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.

Author : James Fowler Kellas Johnstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alba Amicorum of George Strachan, George Craig, Thomas Cumming written by James Fowler Kellas Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Federico Stella
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111096920
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Qur’an in Rome written by Federico Stella and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its relevance to the subsequent development of Western Islamic studies, the intellectual contribution of early modern Catholicism is still an under-researched area. The aim of this volume is to fill this gap, offering a series of essays dealing with the study of the Qur’an and Arabic language in early modern Catholic Europe. Focusing on the circulation of manuscripts, translations and printed books, the essays highlight how Catholic Orientalism contributed to the birth and spread of Western Islamic studies, although sometimes it was still directed towards religious polemics. Among the protagonists of this period of Islamic studies, the volume will focus on Catholic priests, missionaries, religious orders (Jesuits, Franciscans, Carmelites) Eastern Christians, converts, and other prominent figures in the Catholic culture of the time. Special attention will be given to the work of Ludovico Marracci, author of a fundamental edition of the Arabic text and Latin translation of the Qur’an with an introduction, notes, refutations and religious and linguistic insights. The volume is of interest to an audience of specialists and non-specialists interested both in Islamic and Qur'anic studies and in the history of modern Catholicism, missions, and Orientalism

Author : Thomas M. McCoog, S.J.
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004330682
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598–1606 written by Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1598-1606, Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., examines the tribulations of the beleaguered Jesuits in the Three Kingdoms during the transition from the Tudor to the Stuart dynasty.

Author : Peter Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200943
Total Pages : 1206 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Iran written by Peter Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-02-06 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all aspects of the history of Iran from the collapse of the Il-Khanid empire (c.1335) to the second of quarter of the 18th century

Author : Ronald Santangeli
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004529411
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography written by Ronald Santangeli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography, Ronald Santangeli has recovered a long-forgotten document of great historiographical, literary and cultural importance. Written in 1624 in Neo-Latin by George Con, a young expatriate Scot in Rome, the Vita Mariae Stuartae is worthy of study, both for its content and its literary dimension. The fully recensed Latin text is presented with a meticulous translation into English and a fully-annotated commentary. The image Con creates of the Scottish Queen has prevailed in European cultural representations from poetry and drama to novels, paintings and opera, while Con's own meteoric career highlights the impact on seventeenth-century Catholic Europe by members of the Scottish diaspora. A significant addition to Marian and Scottish Neo-Latin studies.