Alexander Bevilacqua: 2 books
The Republic of Arabic Letters
Islam and the European Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic...
Thinking in the Past Tense
Eight Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
If the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims with insights from such diverse fields as the history...