These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic sources. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization.
“Fascinating, eloquent, and learned… A powerful reminder of the ability of scholarship to transcend cultural divides, and the capacity of human minds to accept differences without denouncing them.”-Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch and Liberty’s Exile On The Ottoman History Podcast, listen to Alexander Bevilacqua discuss when and how European scholars first began to seriously study Islam and the Arabic language:
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