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
Harvard University Press
2018, 360 pp, illustr. 2 maps
— ISBN 978-0674975927 —
- 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
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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
