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Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840
Humberto Garcia
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Hardback. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam. Num Pages: 368 pages, 5, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
A corrective addendum to Edward Said's Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain's national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century. Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations. He finds that far from being considered foreign by the era's thinkers, Islamic republicanism played a defining role in Radical Enlightenment debates, most significantly during the Glorious Revolution, French Revolution, and other moments of acute constitutional crisis, as well as in national and political debates about England and its ... Read more
A corrective addendum to Edward Said's Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain's national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century. Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations. He finds that far from being considered foreign by the era's thinkers, Islamic republicanism played a defining role in Radical Enlightenment debates, most significantly during the Glorious Revolution, French Revolution, and other moments of acute constitutional crisis, as well as in national and political debates about England and its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
629g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421403533
SKU
V9781421403533
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About Humberto Garcia
Humberto Garcia is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Reviews for Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840
"A tour de force in substance and argument, Humberto Garcia's signal study uncovers a surprisingly coeval narrative with Enlightenment ideals and demonstrates in painstaking detail the multifarious receptions and assimilations of Islam into English constitutional and nationalist discourse. This book will make an impressive difference to the field of post-colonial inquiry." (Rajani Sudan, author of Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in ... Read more