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Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their
Arabic-Islamic Sources examines masterpieces of English Romantic
poetry and shows the Arabic and Islamic sources that inspired
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron when
composing their poems in the eighteenth, or early nineteenth
century. Critics have documented Greek and Roman sources but turned
a blind eye to nonwestern materials at a time when the romantic
poets were reading them. The book shows how the Arabic-Islamic
sources had helped the British Romantic Poets not only in finding
their own voices, but also their themes, metaphors, symbols,
characters and images. The British Romantic Poets and Their
Arabic-Islamic Sources is of interest to scholars in English and
comparative literature, literary studies, philosophy, religion,
government, history, cultural, and Middle Eastern studies and the
general public.
Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their
Arabic-Islamic Sources examines masterpieces of English Romantic
poetry and shows the Arabic and Islamic sources that inspired
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron when
composing their poems in the eighteenth, or early nineteenth
century. Critics have documented Greek and Roman sources but turned
a blind eye to nonwestern materials at a time when the romantic
poets were reading them. The book shows how the Arabic-Islamic
sources had helped the British Romantic Poets not only in finding
their own voices, but also their themes, metaphors, symbols,
characters and images. The British Romantic Poets and Their
Arabic-Islamic Sources is of interest to scholars in English and
comparative literature, literary studies, philosophy, religion,
government, history, cultural, and Middle Eastern studies and the
general public.
Debunking the Myths of Colonization. examines Salman Rushdie's
thesis on the paradoxical nature of colonialism and its horrific
impact on the psyche of the colonized. It probes Frantz Fanon's
theories concerning the relationship between colonizers and
colonized, and attempts to apply these theories to modern Arabic
literature. Like Rushdi and Fanon, many Arab writers have embarked
on a journey to the metropolis of their ex-colonial masters. Due to
their encounter with English or French culture, they have written
memoirs, poems, or fictions in which they have represented
themselves and the 'other.' Their representations differ markedly
according to their own make up as human beings, their class,
education, experiences, and gender. Yet what brings them together
is their love-hate relationship with the ex-colonizer. In the case
of the Palestinian writers, however, there is only bitterness and
bewilderment at Israel as a colonizing power in the 21st century
and its Jewish citizens, who were once victims in Europe but now
have turned into victimizers.
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays
which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab
philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His
philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of
the most important books that heralded the Scientific Revolution.
Its thoughts are found in different variations and to different
degrees in the books of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton,
and Kant. But if Ibn Tufayl's fundamental values, such as equality,
freedom and toleration, which the thinkers of the European
Enlightenment had adopted as theirs, paved the way to the French
Revolution, they certainly marked the end of the age of reason in
southern Spain and the rest of the Islamic world. Ibn Tufayl's
philosophy was appropriated, subverted, or reinvented for many
centuries. But the memory of the man who wrote such an influential
book was buried in the dust of history. The Vital Roots of European
Enlightenment reexamines Ibn Tufayl's momentous book and its
continued influence over contemporary philosophy. This intriguing
book will appeal to those interested in comparative literature and
religion.
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays
which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab
philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His
philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of
the most important books that heralded the Scientific Revolution.
Its thoughts are found in different variations and to different
degrees in the books of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Isaac Newton,
and Kant. But if Ibn Tufayl's fundamental values, such as equality,
freedom and toleration, which the thinkers of the European
Enlightenment had adopted as theirs, paved the way to the French
Revolution, they certainly marked the end of the age of reason in
southern Spain and the rest of the Islamic world. Ibn Tufayl's
philosophy was appropriated, subverted, or reinvented for many
centuries. But the memory of the man who wrote such an influential
book was buried in the dust of history. The Vital Roots of European
Enlightenment reexamines Ibn Tufayl's momentous book and its
continued influence over contemporary philosophy. This intriguing
book will appeal to those interested in comparative literature and
religion.
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