Notes
1 By ‘Arabic’, Hasse emphasizes the language of these texts rather than the religious or ethnic background of the authors, which included Arabs, Turks and Persians and Muslims, Christians and Jews alike.
2 For a recent treatment that considers the role of Oriental scholarship in historiography and politics, see William Bulman, Anglican Enlightenment: Orientalism, Religion and Politics in England and its Empire, 1648–1715 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).