Seventeenth-century Arabic learning centered on scripture and lexicons.

Evidence

The preparation of lexicons and grammars was characteristic of the earlier seventeenth century; so was the translation of Biblical books into Arabic; cf. the career of William Bedwell, one of the translators of the Authorised Version; he published the Epistles of St John in English and Arabic at Leyden, as well as translations of mathematical treatises. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2455

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nineteenth-century American Muslim knowledge came from Bible, Arabian Nights, and Twain — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 211