Misrepresentations
Dmitri Levitin: The Islamic Enlightenment, 22 November 2018
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
by Alexander Bevilacqua.
Harvard, 340 pp., £25.95, February 2018,978 0 674 97592 7 Show More
by Alexander Bevilacqua.
Harvard, 340 pp., £25.95, February 2018,
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
by Christopher de Bellaigue.
Vintage, 404 pp., £10.99, February 2018,978 0 09 957870 3 Show More
by Christopher de Bellaigue.
Vintage, 404 pp., £10.99, February 2018,
“... period. Bevilacqua refers to that period as the Enlightenment. As the intellectual historian John Robertson pointed out in The Enlightenment: A Short Introduction (2015), two distinct conceptions of the European Enlightenment are currently in circulation. According to the first, commonly held by philosophers and public intellectuals, the Enlightenment ... ”