Nabil Matar: Through Arab Eyes, Gebunden
Through Arab Eyes
- Protestantism and Tridentine Catholicism in the Islamic Mediterranean, 1517-1798
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- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing AG, 09/2026
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031955310
- Item number:
- 12675406
- Volume:
- 427 Pages
- Release date:
- 6.9.2026
- Series:
- New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
The first book based exclusively on Arabic sources in the study of the early modern religious encounters between Western Europe and the Islamic Mediterranean, this volume elucidates the impact of the Protestant and Catholic reformations on the Islamic Mediterranean from Morocco to Bilad al-Sham. Drawing on the vast collection of Arabic Christian manuscripts and Arabic books printed in Europe from the Ottoman conquest to the Napoleonic invasion, it provides an account of the Christian culture of Arabicity as reflected in Christian Arab pilgrimages, multiple calendars, and the role of the Arabic language in the construction of Christian identity. Through contemporaneous debates, disputations, autobiographies, correspondence, and histories, it analyzes the missionary efforts to convert Eastern Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Druzes to the new Christianities of Western Europe and the resulting consequences on the Arab East, thereby calling attention to the differences in the ideologies of conversion between Christianity and Islam.
