Perceptions of Islam in European Writings

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Perceptions of Islam in European Writings

This book is part of the wider study of Islam and the West: a history of European, mainly French and English, intellectual responses to Islam from the seventeenth century onwards. It focuses on the nineteenth century.

This study contributes significantly to the dialogue between Islam and the West a field which has tended to be dominated by mainly non-Muslim writers. Primarily concerned with an intellectual history of Western, mainly English and French, writers responses to Islam from about 1787 to the 1890s, the author uses both European and Islamic source materials in his study.

Studies on Islam and the West have so far tended to be dominated by non-Muslim writers. This study, therefore, attempts to put forward a scholarly, Muslim, point of view, on a subject which has acquired increasing importance in our time. Relying on primary European and Islamic source materials, it remains firmly committed to the notion of fidelity to European thought. It paves the way to a constructive dialogue between equals, Islam and the West

His thorough evaluation of writers including Toderini, Boulainvillier, Sylvestre de Sacy, Byron, Edward Lane, Gobineau and Renan, does justice to the European tradition of writing on Islam. At the same time, the scholarly Muslim point of view is sustained by the use of Islamic source materials which have won the esteem of the Muslim community throughout the centuries.