This collection of essays focuses on the relations between European
and Islamic thought and culture from the late 18th to the 20th
century. The long first essay is concerned with the development of
ideas about Islam in European thought and scholarship, showing in
particular how the views of 19th-century thinkers and scholars
reflected the dominant philosophical and historical ideas of their
age. Subsequent chapters are devoted to individual writers who
played an important part in forming and communicating an image of
Islamic history and civilization: Louis Massignon, H.A.R. Gibb,
Marshall Hodgson and Jacques Berque, together with the
scholar-soldier T.E. Lawrence. The final three essays look at the
subject from the other side, and deal with some of the reactions of
the Islamic world to the powerful new ideas of European
civilization, including the first Arabic encyclopaedia and the
first translation of Homer.
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