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,
“... was short, widely available and accessible to any European man or woman who could read Latin. As Alexander Bevilacqua shows in his erudite and eloquent book The Republic of Arabic Letters, Reiske was just one of a number of European scholars in the hundred years or so after 1650 who devoted a good deal of their time to learning Arabic and other Near ... ”
