For Lust of Knowing (64 page)

Brockelmann, Carl,
190
,
234–
5,
273
,
283

Brown, Peter,
22

Browne, Edward Granville,
162
,
172
,
204–
7,
209
,
217
,
324

campaign for Persian freedom,
204
,
206–
7,
296

personal appearance,
205–
6

Said on,
296

Bryson, Bill,
83

Buchan, John,
200

Buddhism, importance in Indian culture,
315

al-Bukhari,
319

Bulaq Press,
165

Bullard, Reader,
206

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
321

Burckhardt, Jacob,
283

Burlington House, Persian Exhibition (1931),
218

Burnett, Charles,
302

Burnouf, Eugène,
125
,
150

Burton, Sir Richard,
161
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165
,
177
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181
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182

Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de,
61
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63
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109–
10

Byron, Lord,
124

Cabala,
58
,
66
,
68

cabalism, Christian,
58
,
66

cabinets of curiosity,
64
,
108
,
129–
30

Cachia, Pierre,
292

Caesarius of Heisterbach,
52

Caetani, Leone, Prince of Teano and Duke of Sermoneta,
203
,
204
,
324

Cahen, Claude,
216
,
228
,
254–
5,
298

Calamities of Authors
(Disraeli),
120

Calasso, Roberto,
10

California University, Near Eastern Centre,
246

Caliphate, its rise, decline and fall, The
(Muir),
162

Calvino, Italo,
16

Cambridge, Orientalist Congress (1954),
254

Cambridge History of Islam, The
,
286
,
321

Cambridge university,
204
,
205

18th-century decline,
117–
18

ArabicChair,
97
,
119
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178–
9,
179
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181
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183
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193
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206
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209
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243
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266
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275

Chinese Chair,
157

Oriental studies,
178
,
206

Campbell, Mary B.,
53

Canon
(Avicenna),
see al-Qanun fi al-Tibb

Capitulations,
111

Carlowitz, Treaty of (1699),
110

Carmathians, schism,
195

Carmen Tograi
(Pococke ed.),
96–
7

Cartesian Linguistics
(Chomsky),
144

Casaubon, Isaac,
59
,
76
,
79
,
89
,
107

Caspari, Karl Paul,
103
,
153
,
179

Castell, Edmund,
96
,
98–
9

Caxton, William,
71

Chamberlain, Houston,
170

Champollion, Jean François,
142
,
150

Chanson de Roland,
41
,
327

Chardin, Jean (jeweller),
70

Chateaubriand, François René, vicomte de,
118

Chatham House institute,
263

Chatham House Version and Other Middle Eastern Essays, The
(Kedourie),
263
,
321

Chechnya, holy war (1820s),
158

China

attitude to foreigners,
173

deograms,
107

Jesuit missions,
108

studies,
129
,
157

China Monumentis
(Kircher),
129

Chinoiserie,
129

chivalry, origin,
213

Chrestomathie arabe
(Silvestre de Sacy),
143
,
149

chrestomathy,
142

Christendom, beseiged by Turks,
60
,
61

Christians

and Islam,
20–
21,
37
,
38
,
57

knowledge of Islam,
38–
9

Muslim attacks on,
39–
41

Christian VI, king of Denmark,
131

Christian VII, king of Denmark,
122
,
131

Christ
(Morozov),
233

chronology,
73
,
77–
8,
84

al-Cid,
175

Civilisation des Arabes, La
(Le Bon),
311–
12

classics

knowledge of,
207–
8,
209

studies,
159

texts, Arabictranslation,
29
,
31–
2,
35
,
54–
6

Claudel, Paul,
224
,
225

Cleland, John,
100

CluniacOrientalists,
282
,
284

coffee-drinking,
97

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste,
111
,
114
,
119–
20

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
62
,
154

Collège de France,
114
,
148
,
222
,
228
,
257

Arabic Chair,
67

Hebrew Chair,
168

teaching of Arabic,
134

Columbia University, New York,
249
,
250
,
279
,
297
,
306

Columbus, Christopher,
61

Commentary,
journal,
306
,
307

Commonwealth (1649–60),
94

Communism, French Orientalists,
254–
7

Compendium of the Logic of al-Ghazali, The
(Lull),
44

Complutensian Polyglot Bible,
73

Comte, Auguste,
203

Concordantiae Corani Arabicae
(Flügel),
287

Condo, José Antonio,
175

Conermann, Stephan,
239–
40

Conics
(Apollonius),
56

Coningsby
(Disraeli),
154

Connection
(Prideaux),
100

Conrad, Joseph, Said on,
279
,
280

Conrad, Lawrence,
196

Considérations sur la guerre actuelle des Turcs,
136

Constantine I, Emperor,
57

Constantinople, fall (1453),
60

constitutional government,
192

Contents of the Koran, The
(Klimovich),
233

Cook, Michael,
245
,
270

Cook, Walter,
249

Copenhagen university,
132

Copts,
75

Cordova, caliphate,
25

Corpus Hermeticum,
59

Cosmography
(al-Qazwini),
40

Covering Islam
(Said),
294
,
298–
9,
306–
7

Cowan, Milton,
265

Cowell, Edward Byles,
161–
2,
180

Craig, James,
239

Cresswell, Keppel Archibald Cameron,
216
,
302

Crete, Turks invade (1669),
60

Cribratio Alcoran
(Nicholas of Cusa),
57
,
72

Crisis of the Arab Intellectual, The
(Laroui),
323

Croesus, king of Lydia,
13

Cromer, Lord,
209
,
217
,
288

Crone, Patricia,
202
,
245
,
249–
50,
267
,
270
,
322

Crusade, Commerce and Culture
(Atiya),
9–
10

Crusades,
10
,
27
,
242
,
324

barbarism,
213

and Islamic cultural decline,
37

principalities,
36–
7

Voltaire on,
117

Crusades in the Late Middle Ages, The
(Atiya),
245

Cuadra, Luis de,
221
,
225

culture, religion in,
294

Culture and Imperialism
(Said),
300
,
303–
4,
307

cuneiform, Gobineau on,
172–
3

Curzon, Lord,
217
,
288

Cyprus, Turks invade (1571),
60

Cyriacof Ancona,
56

Cyropedia
(Xenophon),
16

Daghestan, holy war (1820s),
158

Dalrymple, William,
159

Daniel Deronda
(Eliot),
286

Dante Alighieri

and Averroism,
35
,
42

and Islam,
42
,
286

Said on,
282
,
285
,
290
,
308

Darius, king of Persia,
11
,
12

Darwin, Charles,
253

al-Dasuqi, Ibrahim,
165

Decameron
(Boccaccio),
42–
3

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
(Gibbon),
120

De Diis Syriis
(Selden),
95

Deism,
86

De la république des Turcs…
(Postel),
67
,
69

della Vale, Pietro,
108

De motu cordis
(Harvey),
83

Denmark

Middle East expedition (1761),
131–
2,
153

Orientalism,
131–
2

De Orbis Concordia Libri Quatuor
(Postel),
70

De originibus seu de Hebraicae linguae et gentis antiquitate
(Postel),
66

De Philosophia Peripatetico apud Syros
(Renan),
166–
7

De Radiis
(al-Kindi),
31

Derbent, capture (1722),
130

De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitations…
(Casaubon),
79–
80

De Recta et Emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione Dialogus
(Smith),
83

De religione Mohammedica
(Reeland),
126

Derrida, Jacques,
300

Description de l'Egypte,
139
,
140
,
145
,
163
,
164
,
295

Desert of the Exodus, The
(Palmer),
181

Despotisme consideré dans les trois états, Le,
126

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft,
146
,
153
,
179

Zeitschrift,
147

Dialogus Miraculorum
(Caesarius of Heisterbach),
52

Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, A
(Cowan),
265

‘Did Muhammad Exist?' (Klimovich),
233

Diodorus Siculus,
18

Diogenes,
periodical,
324

Dionysius, Euripides on,
14–
15

diplomacy, language of,
88

Discours de la méthode
(Descartes),
171

discourse, concept of,
289
,
290

Disputation
(John of Damascus),
23

Disputation with Hamar the Saracen, The
(Lull),
46

Disraeli, Benjamin,
8

Divine Comedy
(Dante),
35
,
42
,
285

Doctrina Mahumet,
27

Dodds, E. R.,
15

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem,
38

Dominican missionaries,
37

Donation of Constantine,
57

Donne, John,
89

Don Quixote
(Cervantes),
83

Dorn, Bernard,
157

Dostoevsky, Fyodor,
294

Douglas, David C.,
85

Dozy, Reinhart P.,
149
,
174–
6,
179
,
193

Dracula
(Stoker),
192

dragomans,
110–
11

Dream Palace of the Arabs, The
(Ajami),
293

Druzes,
68
,
145

Durham University, Arabic Department,
238–
9,
275

Du Ryer, André,
104
,
105
,
121
,
130

East

conflict with West,
10

romance of,
50–
1

superiority of,
69

Eastern Christians

CatholicChurch and,
104

Islam as punishment to,
86

literature of,
86

missionaries to,
75
,
86–
7,
104
,
129

and PLO,
305

École spéciale des langues orientales vivantes,
141
,
142

Eden, Sir Anthony,
238

Edessa, kingdom of,
18

Edinburgh university, Arabic studies,
178
,
267

Egypt

19th-century,
182

Arab conquest,
19

British control (1880s),
285