Editor's Pick ·
How the Islamic Enlightenment Came and Went
How 19th- and 20th-century Muslim intellectuals, clerics, and rulers attempted to come to terms with Western civilization.
Eric Ormsby is the author of, among other books, Theodicy in Islamic Thought, Moses Maimonides and His Time, and seven volumes of poetry.
Editor's Pick ·
How 19th- and 20th-century Muslim intellectuals, clerics, and rulers attempted to come to terms with Western civilization.
Response ·
My old paperback copy of Bernard Lewis’s The Arabs in History (1950) has long since fallen to tatters, its individual signatures now detached, its margins festooned with comments, its pages dog-eare...