The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment

Author(s): Alexander Bevilacqua

Culture & Ideas

Alexander Bevilacqua shows that the Enlightenment effort to learn about Islam and its religious and intellectual traditions issued not from a secular agenda but from the scholarly commitments of a pioneering group of Catholic and Protestant Christians who cast aside inherited views and bequeathed a new understanding of Islam to the modern West.

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General Fields

  • : 9780674975927
  • : Harvard University Press
  • : The Belknap Press
  • : February 2018
  • : 156mm X 235mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 310
  • : Hardback
  • : Alexander Bevilacqua