Islam in European Thought

by Albert Hourani

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521421209
• ISBN13: 9780521421201
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"