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The Medieval Arabic Geographers and the Beginnings of Modern Orientalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Marina Tolmacheva
Marina Tolmacheva
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Associate Professor in the Department of History, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash. 99164–4030, U.S.A.
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European Orientalism of the 19th and 20th centuries has been the subject of a heated and vigorous debate ever since the publication of Edward Said's monograph. By contrast, the study of the early stages of academic and cultural Orientalism has been neglected. For the beginnings of Oriental studies in Europe one still largely relies on institutional histories and archival research, or even V. V. Barthold's 80-year-old study. The birth of academic Orientalism in the 17th century was occasioned by three major factors: a renewed interest in Islam, major advances in travel and exploration, and the emergence of modern approaches to science and education. Among important background developments were the decline of the perceived Arab threat followed by the rise of a very real Ottoman Turkish one, the geographical shift in hostilities from the European West to the East, and the realignment of European alliances and attitudes in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , May 1995 , pp. 141 - 156
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Author's note: The work on this article was supported in part by the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, the Newberry Library Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, and a grant from the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Fund of the American Historical Association.

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31 “The Book for one desirous [to read] descriptions of metropolises, regions, countries, islands, cities and remote areas.” The Latin version reads: Oblectatio desiderantis in descriptione civitatumprincipalium et tractum et provinciarum et insularum et urbium etplagarum mundi (Rome: Typographia Medici, 1592)Google Scholar.

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42 As a result of these numerous defects, most subsequent research involving al-Idrisi focused on providing new and better, though usually fragmented, translations well into the 19th century. Until the appearance of the first French translation (Jaubert, P. A., Géographie d'Edrisi, 2 vols. [Paris, 1836–1840])Google Scholar most of them were made into Latin; regrettably, no reliable translation exists to date.

42 As a result of these numerous defects, most subsequent research involving al-Idrisi focused on providing new and better, though usually fragmented, translations well into the 19th century. Until the appearance of the first French translation (Jaubert, P. A., Géographie d'Edrisi, 2 vols. [Paris, 1836–1940])Google Scholar most of them were made into Latin; regrettably, no reliable translation exists to date.

43 The long-lived “Nubian puzzle” was not completely set aside until the appearance of the first critical edition of the Idrisi text in 1866: Description de I'Afrique et de I'Espagne par Edrisi, ed. and trans. Dozy, Raymond and Goeje, Jan Michael de (Leiden, 1866), vi., n. 1Google Scholar. In the late 18th century, when the identity of the author had already been established, Condé, Josef Antonio still titled his book Descripción de España de Xerif Aledris, conocido por el Nubiense (Madrid, 1799)Google Scholar.

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48 Libri septem, in quibus tabulae omnes gradibus distinctae descriptiones accuratae, coetera suprà priores editiones politiora auctioraque ad christianissimum Galliae et Navarrae regem Ludovicum XIII (Amsterdam, 1616)Google Scholar.

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