The Republic of Arabic Letters

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The Republic of Arabic Letters is written by Alexander Bevilacqua and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674985672 (ISBN 10) and 9780674985674 (ISBN 13).

Alexander Bevilacqua shows that the Enlightenment effort to learn about Islam and its religious and intellectual traditions issued not from a secular agenda but from the scholarly commitments of a pioneering group of Catholic and Protestant Christians who cast aside inherited views and bequeathed a new understanding of Islam to the modern West.