Solomon Negri: The Self-Fashioning of an Arab Christian in Early Modern Europe
Solomon Negri: The Self-Fashioning of an Arab Christian in Early Modern Europe
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所罗门·内格里:现代早期欧洲一位阿拉伯基督徒的自我塑造
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10.1163/9789004140721_009
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2021
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Paula Manstetten
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Paula Manstetten
In 1712, an Arab Christian from Damascus living in Rome was planning his escape. 1 Originally called Sulaymān b. Yaʿqūb and known in Europe by his adopted name Solomon Negri, he had been sent to Paris in 1683, aged eighteen, at the initiative of Jesuit missionaries. 2 The Jesuits had expected him to join their order and return to Syria to spread the Catholic faith. Instead, he had stayed on, becoming one of the many ‘trans-imperial subjects’ hailing from the Ottoman Empire who were roaming Western Europe at the time. 3 Negri had come to Rome after living in London, the Netherlands, Halle, Venice, and Constantinople. He now worked as a professor and translator of Arabic and Syriac for the papal Università la Sapienza and the Collegio Urbano of the Propaganda Fide congregation, the missionary arm of the Roman Catholic