Islam and The English Enlightenment: The Untold Story

“Never before to my knowledge has the cross-fertilisation of Western and Islamic ideas been so encyclopedically documented as it is here. In reading Islam and the English Enlightenment, you will never see the relationship between Islam and the West in the same way again.”

ROBERT F. SHEDI NGER Professor of Religion, Luther College

“C’s Islam and the English Enlightenment is one of the most profoundly enlightening books I have read in years. Dr. Shah compellingly demonstrates that the thinkers of English Enlightenment were undeniably indebted to Islamic sciences and thought, and that the foundational principles of rationalist thought, scientific inquiry and religious toleration were deeply anchored in the Islamic tradition.”

KHALED ABOU EL FADL

Omar & Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law “This is a book that anyone interested in stepping outside a Eurocentric view of the rise of the West and of the modern age must read.”

MICHAEL A. GILLESPIE

Professor of Political Science & Philosophy, Duke University “Dr. Shah convincingly demonstrates the central role that Islam played in shaping the values and ideas of the Enlightenment reformers such as John Locke and Isaac Newton who had helped to produce the modern world.”

GERALD MACLEAN Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter

Contents:
1. Roman Christianity and Its Socio-Political Thought
2. Islam and the Southern Reformation of Christianity
3. Seventeenth Century England, Overseas Trade and English Identity Formation
4. Enlightenment: A Religious Revolution
5. English Enlightenment and Unitarian Islamic Syncretism
6. Islam and the Early English Enlightenment
7. Henry Stubbe and Muhammadan Christianity
8. John Toland and Muhammadan Christianity
9. John Locke: The Unitarian Heretic
10. Socinianism: The Muslim Bridge
11. John Milton: The Pious Muslim?
12. Isaac Newton: The Enraged Anti-Trinitarian
13. English Unitarians: Pinnacle of Islamic Hybrid

Title: Islam and The English Enlightenment

Format(s): Paperback

Edition: 1st

Pages: 683

ISBN:9781800119840

Dimensions:235 x 156 x 51mm