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Clarisse Roche
Ulrich Jasper Seetzen’s scholarly contribution to knowledge-making on the Near East remained limited at this time to the articles he published in various European periodicals. Yet it appears that this highly-scattered source material has been neglected in scholarly literature, which tends to focus instead on his diaries, published over forty years after his death. These articles, however, prove an invaluable source in order to analyze not only his contribution to the scholarly debates of his time, but also to explore the role played by European periodicals in the construction of knowledge about the Near East in the early nineteenth century.Accordingly, this article examines Seetzen’s contributions on the Bedouin tribes and their desert-bred horses, which were arguably of interest to the scholars of his time who commented on and translated them but have been overlooked by previous research. By focusing on these intertwined topics, this article thus aims to examine the significance of his contributions and assess their contemporary reception
