Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes

✍ Scribed by Mehmet Karabela

• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 387
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book elucidates how post-Reformation scholars used Islam as a foil to refine their Protestant identity. Karabela provides new sources for religious studies and Islamic studies scholars, which broadens the received interpretation of the Reformation as a solely European Christian phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
PART I: Post-Reformation Protestant Uses of Islam
PART II: Religion and Theology
1 Moral Laxity of Islam
2 Muhammadan Religion
3 First Arabic Edition of the Qur’an among the Europeans
4 Turkish Muhammadan Theology
5 The Trifling Foundations and the Unwholesome Fruits of the Theology, or Rather, Prattlings of the Jews and Muslims or Turco-Persians
6 Concept of Fate among the Turks
PART III: Philosophy and Liberal Arts
7 History of Rational Philosophy among the Arabs and Turks
8 Development of Logic among the Arabs
9 Inaugural Speech on Turkish Philosophy
10 History of Arabic Logic
11 Turkish Philosophy
12 Politics of the Turkish Republic
13 Fate of Learning among the Arabs
14 Turkish Schools and Colleges
PART IV: Muslim Sects: Sunni and Shi‘a
15 Persian Discourse
16 Investigation of Religions: On Turkish and Persian Muhammadanism
17 Shi‘ites and Sunnis or the Critical Disagreements between Persians and Turks Concerning Religion
Selected Post-Reformation Works on Islamic Thought
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index