Manuscripts, politics and Oriental studies :  life and collections of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) in context / 
edited by Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  (c)2019. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Islamic manuscripts and books,  Volume 19 .
<br/><br/> Collects papers originally presented at the symposium Studies on Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905): Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies, presented by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in cooperation with Orientalisches Institut der Unversität Leipzig, Feb. 19-21, 2015. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als Forscher /  Semitic studies at the Berlin University during Wetzstein's lifetime /  Growing collections and rising expectations: the endeavour to catalogue manuscripts in Arabic script at the Royal Library in Berlin /  The Wetzstein collection at Tubingen University Library: its history, its content, and its reception in Oriental studies /  The Quranic collections acquired by Wetzstein /  Johann Gottfried Wetzstein's manuscripts with Arabic popular stories /  The consul and the king: Wetzstein and Alexander /  Wetzstein in wonderland: Arabian epic manuscripts in the Wetzstein collections /  Arabic manuscripts and books from the bequest of Wetzstein /  Collecting Islamic manuscripts at the Munich Court Library in the nineteenth century: an acquisition history /  Manuscript acquisitions and their later movements: a further note about the case of the Lewis Quranic manuscript /  Manuscript ownership and readership at the American University of Beirut at the turn of the twentieth century /  Looking at man in the state of nature: Johann Gottfried Wetzstein on the Bedouin of the Syrian steppe /  From Leipzig to Damascus: Wetzstein as a broker of Arabic prints in Syria /  Bemerkungen zu den hinterlassenen Papieren Johann Gottfried Wetzsteins /  Living in mid-nineteenth-century Damascus: insights into the urban residences of foreigners and locals /  Arabist and consul in Damascus: Sir Richard Burton and the problematic nature of his translation of the thousand and one nights /  Holger Preissler --  Ludmila Hanisch --  Christoph Rauch --  Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf --  Francois Deroche --  Jan Just Witkam --  Faustina Doufikar-Aerts --  Claudia Ott --  Boris Liebrenz, Christoph Rauch --  Helga Rebhan --  Alba Fedeli --  Kaoukab Chebaro, Samar El Mikati El Kaissi --  Astrid Meier --  Boris Liebrenz --  Ingrid Huhn --  Anke Scharrahs --  Robert Irwin. 
<br/><br/> "Manuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies commemorates the life and works of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) as a scholar, manuscript collector, and consul in Berlin and Damascus. Beyond research into Wetzstein's own time, special attention is given to the impact his efforts to acquire manuscripts have had until this day. Several contributions also illustrate contemporary developments that give context to his own career as a scholar and diplomat. The particular focus of this volume allows to explore the history of Oriental scholarship not purely through the lens of academic posts and publications but encourages us to discover lifes such as Wetzstein's, without academic stardom yet laying the material foundations of textual work for generations"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9004393145 9789004393141 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019011167 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wetzstein, J. G. 1815-1905 --Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Middle East specialists--Germany--Biography--Congresses.<br/>Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Germany--Congresses.<br/>Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting--Middle East--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS32  / .M368 2019