The Orient in Utrecht Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion

Christian Lange, Bart Jaski, Anna Pytlowany, Hendrik Johannes van Rinsum — 2021

The Orient in Utrecht unfolds the intellectual biography of Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), professor of Oriental languages and Hebrew Antiquities in Utrecht, philologist, Hebraist, Arabist, cartographer, poet, antiquarian, and a pioneer of the comparative study of religion.