Search results for "Orientalist" - New World Encyclopedia
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- century by Antoine Galland, a French orientalist, who claimed to have heard them in oral form from a Maronite story-teller from Aleppo in Syria ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- Edward Pococke (1604 - 1691) was an English Orientalist and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke spent ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- scholar Julius Oppert, and versatile British Orientalist William Henry Fox Talbot. Hincks had come to a number of important conclusions regarding the ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- where his father was chaplain and an Orientalist professor. Three years early, he then enrolled at the Tübinger Stift (seminary of the Protestant ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 06:43, 15 April 2024
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the thirteenth century. He is noted for his works ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- standing before a seated Caesar, painted in the Orientalist style. *The Death of Cleopatra (1874). Painted by Jean André Rixens, it hangs in ...20 KB (3,144 words) - 22:04, 7 January 2024
- British historian and orientalist, Thomas Carlyle, in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, calls Ali, "noble-minded ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- or may not be related to the sixteenth-century Orientalist of the same name. In his India in Greece (original, 1852) Pococke argued that the "Greek ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- yields virtually identical results. The German orientalist Hellmut Ritter at first thought that the problem could be explained by a spiritual evolution ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- first appeared in 1864 in a review of the Orientalist painting La danse de l'almée (The Dance of the Almeh). Ainsley Hawthorn, [https://www ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- #039;ib al-Maqdur, translated by the Dutch Orientalist Colitis in 1636. In the work of the former, as Sir William Jones remarks, "the Tatarian conqueror ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Khatib and the reasons for his departure. The orientalist Muhsin Mahdi interprets this as showing that Ibn Khaldūn later realized that he had completely ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- In 1890 the Cambridge University orientalist Edward Granville Browne had an interview with Bahá'u'lláh in this house. After this ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- century, as by academics like the German Orientalist Hiob Ludolf, it was conclusively proved that there was no actual native connection between ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- was a German philologist, mythographer, and Orientalist who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. He was also one of the founders ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- were seen as antithetical to the West. This Orientalist desire laid the focus on both on personal experience and the need to find meaning through travel. ...30 KB (4,259 words) - 22:02, 30 April 2023
- Similarly, Oxford scholar Albert Hourani (1915-1993) defended Orientalist (Western) scholarship of the non-Western world. Edward Said (1935-2003 ...33 KB (4,990 words) - 23:36, 20 April 2021
- centers. They were deciphered in 1837, by the Orientalist James Princep. In these inscriptions, Ashoka refers to himself as "Beloved of the Gods ...36 KB (5,521 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- A few years later, encouraged by the famous orientalist Friedrich Mayer, he read the Upanishads, which were to become his third source of inspiration. ...39 KB (6,008 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- was discovered in 1813 by the famous Swiss Orientalist and traveler Ludwig Burckhardt, who is also credited with having found the city of Petra in ...38 KB (6,086 words) - 05:03, 17 July 2022
