Republic of Arabic Letters
Republic of Arabic Letters Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeA Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistA Sheik Zayed Book Award FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. They produced the first accurate…
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Republic of Arabic Letters
Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams PrizeA Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistA Sheik Zayed Book Award FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. They produced the first accurate translation of the Qur'an, mapped Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic sources. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year "Deeply thoughtful...A delight."--The Economist "[A] tour de force...Bevilacqua's extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story...He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity." --New RepublicIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Western scholars laid the groundwork for the modern understanding of Islamic civilization.
The Republic of Arabic Letters is the first account of this riveting lost period of cultural