Article ID: CBB052655259

Nābulusī Explores the Ruins of Baalbek: Antiquarianism in the Ottoman Empire during the Seventeenth Century (Spring 2022)

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Although it is generally thought that Muslims paid little attention to pre-Islamic antiquity, the Damascene scholar ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī visited and described the Roman ruins of Baalbek twice, in 1689 and 1700. He interpreted the site, however, not as a temple but as a palace built by jinns for Solomon. Nābulusī was very likely aware of the site's Roman past but purposefully played with its historicity to highlight Syria's innate sanctity. His interpretation of Baalbek reveals an antiquarian project in the Ottoman Empire that was constructed along variant but parallel lines to the better known one in Renaissance Europe.

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Authors & Contributors
Ottaviani, Alessandro
Dankoff, Robert
Anastasopoulos, Antonis
Brentjes, Sonja
Carey, Daniel
Elshakry, Marwa S.
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
History of European Ideas
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Early Modern History
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Yale University
Columbia University
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Brill
Concepts
Antiquarianism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Societies; institutions; academies
Travel; exploration
Cartography
Colonialism
People
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Hakluyt, Richard
Kircher, Athanasius
Mustafa b. `Abdallah (Haggi Khalifa; Katib Chelebi)
Warburton, William
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
16th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Ottoman Empire
Syria
Europe
Italy
Africa
Armenia
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
League of Nations
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM)
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