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The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe.

The present work is about the life, works and travels of a seventeenth-century wandering scholar through Europe and the Near East, his connections to the foremost scholars of his time, and his promotion of the study of Arabic through the oriental manuscripts that he collected.