This series of panel discussions examines the place of war with the Ottoman Empire in understandings of Islam and the Qur'an in non-Ottoman Europe. It sketches a broad historical trajectory, starting with the fall of Constantinople and continuing into the eighteenth century, tracing how conflict informed popular views of Islam and impacted the material conditions and practices of orientalist scholarship, through looted orientalia (manuscripts, coins, textiles, metalwork) and prisoners who assisted orientalists as scribes and amanuenses.
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