- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: The Arcadian Library (5 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0197144020
- ISBN-13: 978-0197144022
- Product Dimensions: 32.5 x 24.9 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,350,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Painstakingly researched, Andre du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France is the first (and should long remain the definitive) study of its subject. (Nabil Matar, Common Knowledge )
...this monumental work should be read by anyone seriously interested in learning about aspects of Islam and the West in the seventeenth century, which are so vividly brought to life here. (Ahmad Gunny, Journal of Islamic Studies )
... impressive book ... an exemplary work of scholarship, attractively written and exhaustive in content ... With its fine typography, excellent illustrations and handsome format it is a joy to read. (Edmund Bosworth, Times Literary Supplement )
... the authors show, with convincing detail, that [Du Ryer] was a real scholar, a man whose practical training illumined and enriched his intellectual formation. (Edmund Bosworth, Times Literary Supplement )
...this monumental work should be read by anyone seriously interested in learning about aspects of Islam and the West in the seventeenth century, which are so vividly brought to life here. (Ahmad Gunny, Journal of Islamic Studies )
... impressive book ... an exemplary work of scholarship, attractively written and exhaustive in content ... With its fine typography, excellent illustrations and handsome format it is a joy to read. (Edmund Bosworth, Times Literary Supplement )
... the authors show, with convincing detail, that [Du Ryer] was a real scholar, a man whose practical training illumined and enriched his intellectual formation. (Edmund Bosworth, Times Literary Supplement )
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André Du Ryer was French vice-consul in Egypt from 1623 to 1626, and both as adviser and interpreter to the French ambassador in Istanbul and ambassador extraordinary of the sultan to France in the early 1630s, he assembled a fine collection of Turkish, Persian, and Arabic manuscripts most of which are now in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. After reconstructing his diplomatic career and his life after his return to France in 1633, the authors assess Du Ryer's contribution to Turkish and Persian studies, his translation of the Quran both in France and in the countries where it was translated (England, Holland, and Germany), and his manuscript collection. Du Ryer is presented in the historical context of French diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire and in the context both of contemporary European orientalism and of the development of French literature in the reign of Louis XIII and the minority of Louis XIV. He emerges as an important and influential figure whose significance has never previously been appreciated.
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oriental trip in old french-turkish relationships
7 April 2008
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Andre Du Ryer achieved diplomatic and cultural travels in Egypt, Persia and Turkey, as delegate of the merchants of Marseille first, of the king of France then. These travels are partly described in his work.
Thank you for this interesting book with many photos and drawings.
Thank you for this interesting book with many photos and drawings.
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