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Islam in European Thought

Islam in European Thought

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  • Date Published: September 1992
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521421201

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  • This collection of essays focuses on the relation between European and Islamic thought and culture from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century. Albert Hourani explores the development of ideas about Islam in European thought and discusses the individual writers who played an important part in informing and communicating an image of Islamic history and civilisation. He also examines some of the reactions of the Islamic world to the powerful new ideas of European civilization including the first Arabic encyclopedia and translation of Homer.

    • Written by the world's leading historian of the Middle East
    • Makes a major contribution to the debate about 'orientalism'
    • Written in an accessible, concise style
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    'He has an understanding of both western and Arab-Muslim intellectual traditions unmatched in his generation. His writing is elegant and judicious, marked by a passionate concern to get as near to the truth as possible … In these essays Hourani concentrates on how knowledge of Islam came to the West through the work of great orientalists such as Ignaz Goldziher, Hamilton Gibb, Louis Massignon, Jacques Berque and Marshall Hodgson … Wise voices like Hourani's, uncontaminated by religiosity or lust for power, are especially needed at this time.' New Statesman and Society

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    • Date Published: September 1992
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521421201
    • length: 212 pages
    • dimensions: 221 x 141 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.28kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Islam in European thought
    2. Wednesday afternoon remembered
    3. Marshall Hodgson and the venture of Islam
    4. Islamic history, Middle Eastern history, modern history
    5. T. E. Lawrence and Louis Massignon
    6. In search of a new Andalusia: Jacques Berque and the Arabs
    7. Culture and change: the Middle East in the eighteenth century
    8. Bustani's encylopaedia
    9. Sulaiman al-Bustani andThe Iliad.

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    Albert Hourani

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