The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England

The 12th now in the series, this publication of the 1996 Panizzi Lectures continues what has become a most impressive series of annual scholarly presentations, very much worthy of the librarian after whom they are named and of the Library which hosts and publishes them. The range of subjects is as diverse as the collections of the British Library and each year an eminent scholar in his or her field has maintained a tradition of erudite scholarship combined with lucid exposition of sometimes apparently very specialist topics. Dr Burnett’s lectures maintain, indeed enhance, that tradition.

While the importance of Arabic...