The Enlightenment Qur'an The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam

by Elmarsafy, Ziad

• ISBN13: 9781851686520
• ISBN10: 1851686525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Summary

Iconoclastic and fiercely rational, the European Enlightenment witnessed the birth of modern Western society and thought. Reason was sacrosanct, and for the first time religious belief and institutions were open to widespread criticism. In this groundbreaking book, Ziad Elmarsafy challenges this accepted wisdom to argue that religion was still hugely influential in the era. But the religion in question wasn't Christianity-it was Islam.

Author Biography

Ziad Elmarsafy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Translators and Translations of the Qur' &abar;n	p. 1
Sale, Marracci, and the Representation of Islam	p. 37
Translating Christ and Christianity	p. 64
Voltaire: Muhammad and Moses, Opposition and Identification	p. 81
Rousseau and the Language of the Legislator	p. 121
Savary, Napoleon, and Egypt: Visions of Prophecy and Conquest	p. 143
Goethe: Poetry and Prophecy, from Mahomet to World Literature	p. 158
Afterword	p. 180
Endnotes	p. 194
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 259
Index of Qur' &abar;nic Verses	p. 268
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