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The Republic of Arabic Letters - Islam and the European Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize A Longman-History Today
Book Prize Finalist A Sheik Zayed Book Award Finalist Winner of the
Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of
the Year "Deeply thoughtful...A delight."-The Economist "[A] tour
de force...Bevilacqua's extraordinary book provides the first true
glimpse into this story...He, like the tradition he describes, is a
rarity." -New Republic In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
a pioneering community of Western scholars laid the groundwork for
the modern understanding of Islamic civilization. They produced the
first accurate translation of the Qur'an, mapped Islamic arts and
sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic sources. The
Republic of Arabic Letters is the first account of this riveting
lost period of cultural exchange, revealing the profound influence
of Catholic and Protestant intellectuals on the Enlightenment
understanding of Islam. "A closely researched and engrossing study
of...those scholars who, having learned Arabic, used their mastery
of that difficult language to interpret the Quran, study the career
of Muhammad...and introduce Europeans to the masterpieces of Arabic
literature." -Robert Irwin, Wall Street Journal "Fascinating,
eloquent, and learned, The Republic of Arabic Letters reveals a
world later lost, in which European scholars studied Islam with a
sense of affinity and respect...A powerful reminder of the ability
of scholarship to transcend cultural divides, and the capacity of
human minds to accept differences without denouncing them." -Maya
Jasanoff "What makes his study so groundbreaking, and such a joy to
read, is the connection he makes between intellectual history and
the material history of books." -Financial Times
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