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The Republic of Arabic Letters : Islam and the European Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780674985698 0674985699 9780674975927 0674975928 0674985672 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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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 Relying on a variety of unpublished sources in six languages, it recounts how Christian scholars first came to a clear-eyed view of Islam.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.--

Arab culture and Ottoman magnificence in Antwerp's Golden Age
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ISBN: 0197144012 9780197144015 Year: 2001 Publisher: London: Arcadian library,

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Book history --- anno 1500-1599 --- Arab States --- Antwerp --- Islamic civilization --- Books and reading --- Illustration of books --- Civilisation islamique --- Livres et lecture --- Illustration des livres --- History --- Histoire --- Antwerp (Belgium) --- Belgium --- Anvers (Belgique) --- Belgique --- Civilization --- Islamic influences --- Civilisation --- Influence islamique --- Turkish imprints --- Arabic imprints --- Early printed books --- Civilization, Islamic --- 949.31 ANTWERPEN "15" --- 094.1 <493 ANTWERPEN> --- 953 --- -Civilization, Islamic --- -Early printed books --- -Turkish imprints --- -949.32 --- 327.40561 --- Bibliography --- Books --- Muslim civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- Geschiedenis van België: provincie Antwerpen:--reg./lok.--?"15" --- Oude drukken: bibliografie----België--ANTWERPEN --- Geschiedenis van het Arabisch schiereiland en de Islamitische wereld --- History Belgium Antwerp Limburg --- Social sciences International relations Europe Turkey --- -Belgium --- -Civilization --- -Islamic influences. --- Islamic civilization. --- 953 Geschiedenis van het Arabisch schiereiland en de Islamitische wereld --- 094.1 <493 ANTWERPEN> Oude drukken: bibliografie----België--ANTWERPEN --- 949.31 ANTWERPEN "15" Geschiedenis van België: provincie Antwerpen:--reg./lok.--?"15" --- Anṿerśah (Belgium) --- Anṭṿerpen (Belgium) --- Antwerpen (Belgium) --- Antuerpia (Belgium) --- Anvers (Belgium) --- Anversa (Belgium) --- Antwerpia (Belgium) --- Anwerpia (Belgium) --- Andowerpia (Belgium) --- Amberes (Belgium) --- Antverpia (Belgium) --- Ambivaritum (Belgium) --- Anderpus (Belgium) --- Andevorpum (Belgium) --- Andoverpis (Belgium) --- Andoverpum (Belgium) --- Antwerpha (Belgium) --- Antwerpium (Belgium) --- Antwerpo (Belgium) --- Antwerpum (Belgium) --- Handoverpia (Belgium) --- Andwerpa (Belgium) --- Antverpis (Belgium) --- Antverpo (Belgium) --- Antverpum (Belgium) --- België --- Bélgica --- Royaume de Belgique --- Belgii︠a︡ --- Kingdom of Belgium --- Koninkrijk van België --- Königreich Belgien --- Bèlgia --- Koninkryk van België --- Königriich Belgie --- Koninkrijk België --- Belgice --- Belgice Cynerīce --- بلجيكا --- Baljīkā --- مملكة بلجيكا --- Mamlakat Baljīkā --- Belchica --- Reino de Belchica --- Belghia --- Vãsilia di Belghia --- Royômo de Bèlg·ique --- Bélxica --- Reinu de Bélxica --- Bilkiya --- Bilgasuyu --- Bilhika Qhapaqsuyu --- Belçika --- Belçika Krallığı --- Бельгия --- Бельгия Короллеге --- Belʹgii︠a︡ Korollege --- Бельгія --- Belʹhii︠a︡ --- Каралеўства Бельгія --- Karaleŭstva Belʹhii︠a︡ --- Belhika --- Bäigien --- Kinigraich Bäigien --- Belgija --- Kraljevina Belgija --- Белгия --- Regne de Bèlgica --- Бельги --- Belʹgi --- Belgické království --- Gwlad Belg --- Teyrnas Gwlad Belg --- Belgien --- Kongeriget Belgien --- Bélgii Bikéyah --- Belgiska --- Kralojstwo Belgiskej --- Belgia Kuningriik --- Βέλγιο --- Velgio --- Βασίλειο του Βελγίου --- Vasileio tou Velgiou --- Reino de Bélgica --- Belgio --- Reĝlando Belgio --- Belgujo --- Belgika --- Belgje --- Belgjo --- Belgjiche --- Bheilg --- Ríocht na Beilge --- Velg --- Reeriaght ny Belg --- Belgiya --- Rìoghachd na Beilge --- Pí-li-sṳ̀ --- Belʹjmudin Nutg --- Pelekiuma --- Regno del Belgio --- בלגיה --- Belgiyah --- ממלכת בלגיה --- Mamlekhet Belgiyah --- Belgijskô --- Pow Belg --- Ruwvaneth Belgek --- Ububiligi --- Ububirigi --- Igihugu cyʼUbubirigi --- Ubelgiji --- Ufalme wa Ubelgiji --- Belezi --- Nsi ya ntotila ya Belezi --- Bèljik --- Beljika --- Beļgeja --- Beļg̓ijas Karaliste --- Belsch --- Kinnekräich Belsch --- Belgijos Karalystė --- Belsj --- Keuninkriek Belsj --- Beldjym --- Belga Királyság --- Белгија --- ベルギー --- Berugī --- 949.32 --- Islamic influences. --- Turkey --- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 --- Early works to 1800 --- Exhibitions --- Description and travel --- Imprints --- Arab countries --- Intellectual life --- Arab states --- אנטווערפען --- Turkish imprints - Belgium - Antwerp --- Arabic imprints - Belgium - Antwerp --- Early printed books - 17th century --- Early printed books - 16th century --- Belgium - Civilization - Islamic influences --- Antwerp (Belgium) - Civilization - 16th century --- Anvers (belgique) --- 16e siecle

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