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The republic of Arabic letters : Islam and the European enlightenment /

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...

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Main Author:	Bevilacqua, Alexander, 1984- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Islamic civilization > Study and teaching > Europe, Western. Enlightenment > Europe. Europe > Civilization > Islamic influences. Christian scholars > Europe > History.

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