Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke
Pococke's celebrated edition of Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history "It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer) by Edward Pococke

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    Specimen historiae arabum; ... Accessit historia veterum Arabum ex Abu'l Feda: cura Antonii I. Sylvestre De Sacy. Edidit Josephus White, ...
    Oxford, Clarendon Press [= Oxford University Press], 1806.
    4to. Title-page with engraved view of the Clarendon Building, aquatint author's portrait and 1 full-page etched plate. Contemporary boards.

    Second edition of Pococke's elaborate Specimen historiae Arabum, an excerpt from Abu'l-Faraj's Islamic history, in Arabic and Latin. The excerpt is "accompanied by a lengthy commentary (printed first in 1648) illuminating Islamic history, geography, mythology, religion, and literature from a wealth of sources, mostly unpublished and previously unknown in Europe. It represents a revolution in Arabic studies, being Pococke's attempt to show that far from being a mere ancillary to biblical exegesis, Arabic literature (in the widest sense) was worthy of study in its own right in the same way that classical cultures were. It is his greatest work, and of permanent scholarly value" (Toomer). Abu'l-Faraj's account is followed by unpublished fragments, in Arabic, of Abu'l-Fida's account of pre-Islamic Arabia, edited by Sylvestre de Sacy.
    From the library of the Ducs de Luynes, with their bookplate on pastedown. Foxed, leaf Y4 with tear, otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed.
    Schnurrer 169; for Pococke: Toomer, "Pococke, Edward (1604-1691)", in: ODNB (online ed).
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    Edward Pocock, l'orientalista, nacque nel 1604 a Oxford, in una casa vicino all'Angel Inn, nella parrocchia di St. Peter-in-the-East, e lì fu battezzato l'8 novembre 1604. Suo padre, Edward Pocock Senior, immatricolato (come 'pleb. fil.' di Hampshire) al Magdalen College nel 1585, fu demy dal 1585 al 1591, tenne una borsa di studio dal 1591 al 1604, procedette BA 1588, MA 1592 e poi BD 1602. Un anno dopo, fu nominato Vicario di Chieveley nel Berkshire dove la famiglia aveva vissuto per almeno cento anni. Con sua moglie, Grace, la sorella di Henry Greatham, Edward Senior ha cresciuto sei figli e due figlie. Altre due figlie sono morte molto giovani. Sebbene ritenesse che l'Islam fosse una falsa fede, voleva anche screditare le polemiche, le invenzioni e il folklore rozze che rappresentavano erroneamente l'Islam e Maometto. Ha contribuito a fare da pioniere nell'uso delle fonti primarie e nel lavoro sul campo in contesti musulmani. La sua difesa della filosofia musulmana come degna materia di studio gli ha impedito di ridurre l'Islam ad aspetti legalistici, anche se era disinteressato all'Islam come fede viva. Tendeva ad avvicinarsi all'Islam come faceva con i testi antichi, di interesse storico piuttosto che contemporaneo. Aveva relativamente pochi studenti e poiché scriveva in latino il suo approccio non ebbe un impatto sul grande pubblico. Tuttavia, ha stabilito standard per lo studio accademico dell'Islam che hanno fatto molto per correggere gli errori del passato, per rendere inaccettabili la calunnia e l'invenzione. Ha dato un contributo significativo alla conoscenza della storia dell'Islam in Occidente. Pococke è da annoverare tra i padri fondatori degli studi arabi e islamici nell'accademia occidentale, insieme agli uomini che per primi occuparono le cattedre fondate a Cambridge (1633), Parigi (1535) e Leida (1613).

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