Alexander Bevilacqua: Die Republik arabischer Gelehrsamkeit - Islam und die europäische Aufklärung

Alexander Bevilacqua

The Republic of Arabic Letters

Islam and the European Enlightenment

Cambridge, Mass. (USA) / London (UK):
Harvard University Press
2018, 360 pp, illustr. 2 maps

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• Table of Contents

• Note on Terminology, Names, Transliteration, and Dates
• List of Protagonists
• List of Frequently Discussed Arabic and Islamic Authors
• Introduction
• 1. The Oriental Library
• 2. The Qur’an in Translation
• 3. A New View of Islam
• 4. D’Herbelot’s Oriental Garden
• 5. Islam in History
• 6. Islam and the Enlightenment
• Epilogue
• Abbreviations
• Notes ---  elected Bibliography --- Acknowledgments --- Index

RELATED LINKS

• Rezension von Bruce Fudge: hier = 
  Asiatische Studien - Etudes Asiatiques 72:3 (2018), 1015-1019
• At Literary Hub, read an excerpt from The Republic of Arabic Letters on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European attempts to bring home Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts for Continental libraries
• Listen to a New Books Network podcast conversation with Alexander Bevilacqua
• Browse a selection of HUP works on Islam’s place in the world—past and present