Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes (Karabela Mehmet)(Pevná vazba)

Early modern Protestant scholars closely engaged with Islamic thought in more ways than is usually recognized. Among Protestants, Lutheran scholars distinguished themselves as the most invested in the study of Islam and Muslim culture. Mehmet Karabela brings the neglected voices of post-Reformation theologians, primarily German Lutherans, into focus and reveals their rigorous engagement with Islamic thought. Inspired by a global history approach to religious thought, Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes offers new sources to broaden the conventional interpretation of the Reformation as a solely European Christian phenomenon. Based on unstudied dissertations, disputations, and academic works written in Latin in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century, Karabela analyzes three themes: Islam as theology and religion; Islamic philosophy and liberal arts; and
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