History of Islam in German Thought
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anthropology
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Author_Ian Almond
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comparative religion
cultural representation
Dichtung Und Wahrheit
Egyptian Plan
empire
Enlightenment thinkers
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European intellectual history
Fi Rst Kiss
German philosophers' views on Islam
German philosophy
Herder's Arab
Herder's Part
Herder's Thought
Herder's Writings
Herder’s Arab
Herder’s Part
Herder’s Thought
Herder’s Writings
Kant's Part
Kant's References
kants
Kant’s Part
Kant’s References
Leibniz's Approach
Leibniz's Response
Leibniz’s Approach
Leibniz’s Response
muslim
Muslim Orient
Muslim World
Nietzsche's Work
Nietzsche’s Work
Nouveaux Essais
Opposition MP
orient
Orientalism
ottoman
Richard III
russo
Selim III
Sprache Und Weisheit Der Indier
Sufi Sm
Sultan Selim III
Tulip Period
turkish
wars
world
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415995191
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how these thinkers, within their own bodies of work, often espoused contradicting ideas about Islam and their nearest Muslim neighbors. Exploring a variety of 'neat compartmentalizations' at work in the representations of Islam, as well as distinct vocabularies employed by these key intellectuals (theological, political, philological, poetic), Ian Almond parses these vocabularies to examine the importance of Islam in the very history of German thought. Almond further demonstrates the ways in which German philosophers such as Hegel, Kant, and Marx repeatedly ignored information about the Muslim world that did not harmonize with the particular landscapes they were trying to paint – a fact which in turn makes us reflect on what it means when a society possesses 'knowledge' of a foreign culture.
Ian Almond is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, and has taught courses on the representation of Islam in the Western tradition at a number of universities including the University of Edinburgh, the Freie Universitat (Berlin), and the Universita di Bari (Italy). He is author of three books -- Sufism and Deconstruction (Routledge, 2004), The New Orientalists (2007), and a military history of Muslim-Christian alliances, Two Faiths, One Banner (2008).
