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The republic of Arabic letters : Islam and the European Enlightenment / Alexander Bevilacqua. by Bevilacqua, Alexander, 1984- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. Call#:  909.09767 B4681R 2018 Description:  xv, 340 pages, 24 nunumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Contents:  The Oriental library -- The Qur'an in translation -- A new view of Islam -- D'Herbelot's Oriental garden -- Islam in history -- Islam and the enlightenment. Summary:  The foundations of the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization were laid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Well after the Crusades but before modern colonialism, Europeans first accurately translated the Qur'an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote the history of Muslim societies using Arabic sources. The Republic of Arabic Letters provides the first panoramic treatment of this transformation. Relying on a variety of unpublished sources in six languages, it recounts how Christian scholars first came to a clear-eyed view of Islam. Its protagonists are Europeans who learned Arabic and used their linguistic skills to translate and interpret Islamic civilization. Christians both Catholic and Protestant, and not the secular thinkers of the Enlightenment, established this new knowledge, which swept away religious prejudice and cast aside a medieval tradition of polemical falsehoods. Beginning with the collection of Islamic manuscripts in the Near East and beyond, the book moves from Rome, Paris and Oxford to Cambridge, London and Leiden in order to reconstruct the most important breakthroughs in this scholarly movement. By identifying the individual manuscripts used, The Republic of Arabic Letters reveals how the translators, willing to be taught by Islamic traditions, imported contemporary Muslim interpretations and judgments into the European body of knowledge about Islam. Eventually, their books reached readers like Voltaire and Edward Gibbon, who assimilated not just their factual content but their interpretations, weaving them into the fabric of Enlightenment thought.-- ISBN:  9780674975927 0674975928 Horizon #:  3342140 Media Type:  volume OCLC#:  on1000526856 LC Card Number:  2017031813   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Central Library Levels 7-9 Nonfiction 909.09767 B4681R 2018 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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