`a treasure-trove that any student of the contacts between Europe
and the Islamic workd can now use a s guide in order to elaborate
any of the issues not already covered extensively by Toomer ... the
analytical expositions of the author are carfully woven together
and constitute in themselves a rich groundwork for dissertations in
progress and those yet to be written.'
George Saliba, Jnl of the American Oriental Soc. 1209.1 (2000).
`Toomer's book has the erudition and meticulous scholarship that
has always marked his work.'
George Saliba, Jnl of the American Oriental Soc. 1209.1 (2000).
`This erudite and well-written book immediately establishes itself
as the authoritative treatment of its subject ... The real novelty
of this book lies in its compendiousness, and its mainly
biographical structure will make it a ready source of reference for
others. Toomer gives succinct accounts of the lives and careers of
all the major English Arabists.'
Scott Mandelbrote, Ecclesiastical History
`fascinating.... by far the best survey of Arabic studies in
seventeenth-century England to date.'
Times Literary Supplement
`Professor Toomer's prose is chaste and clear, and his book is
founded on meticulous scholarship which will arouse admiration and
envy.'
James Craig, Asian Affairs, February 1997
`The author is to be congratulated on an extremely thoroughly
researched, systematic and detailed account of Arabic studies in
seventeenth-century England. The present work is based on a very
wide range of printed primary and secondary sources, and on
unpublished materials, hitherto largely unexplored, in the Bodleian
and British Libraries and the Public Record Office.'
P.M. Holt, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
Vol. 60, No. 2, '97
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