Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670–1840 by Humberto Garcia
By Humberto Garcia
A corrective addendum to Edward Said's Orientalism, this publication examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed considerably to Protestant Britain's nationwide and imperial id within the eighteenth century.
Taking a historic view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with unique study on Anglo-Islamic family. He reveals that faraway from being thought of overseas by way of the era's thinkers, Islamic republicanism performed a defining function in Radical Enlightenment debates, most importantly through the excellent Revolution, French Revolution, and different moments of acute constitutional predicament, in addition to in nationwide and political debates approximately England and its abroad empire. Garcia exhibits that writers similar to Edmund Burke, woman Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Percy and Mary Shelley not just have been stimulated by way of overseas occasions within the Muslim global but additionally observed in that global and its background a conceivable route to interrogate, contest, and redefine British options of liberty.
This deft exploration of the forgotten second in early sleek background while intercultural alternate among the Muslim global and Christian West was once universal resituates English literary and highbrow background within the wider context of the worldwide eighteenth century. The direct problem it poses to the assumption of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an immense revision to post-9/11 narratives a few ancient conflict among Western democratic values and Islam.
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