Orientalist Pococke : Brokering Across Borders, Disciplines and Genres Claire Gallien
Orientalist Pococke : Brokering Across Borders, Disciplines and Genres Claire Gallien To cite this version: Claire Gallien. Orientalist Pococke : Brokering Across Borders, Disciplines and Genres. The Interna- tionalization of Intellectual Exchange in a Globalizing Europe, 1636–1780, Bucknell University Press, pp.1-30, 2017, 9781611487893. halshs-01658481 HAL Id: halshs-01658481 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01658481 Submitted on 21 Mar 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. 1 ORIENTALIST POCOCKE Brokering across Borders, Disciplines, and Genres Claire Gallien DWARD POCOCKE (1604–1691) has long been con- Esidered, and remains, an authoritative fgure in the world of early-modern oriental- ism. In 1636, he became the frst Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford. Before him, no regular teaching in Arabic was provided in England,1 and the Bodleian Library contained only a handful of Oriental manuscripts.2 Tere were no printed grammars or dictionaries worth the name, no native speakers to teach the lan- guage, and few printed books in Arabic.3 In this context, Pococke soon gained a considerable reputation in England and across Europe for raising the standards of orientalist scholarship and turning Oxford and its library into frst-rate institu- tions of orientalist learning.
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