A Dissertation on the Passions
A Dissertation on the Passions

Author: David Hume

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0199251886

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Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.

Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam
Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam

Author: Nabil Matar

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0231156642

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Henry Stubbe (1632–1676) was a revolutionary English scholar who understood Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, An Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahometanism, was the first English text to positively document the Prophet Muhammad’s life, celebrate the Qur’an as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim toleration of Christians, undermining a long legacy of European prejudice and hostility. Nabil Matar, a leading scholar of Islamic-Western relations, standardizes Stubbe’s text and situates it within England’s theological climate. He shows how, to draw a positive portrait of Muhammad, Stubbe embraced travelogues, early church histories, Arabic chronicles, Latin commentaries, and studies on Jewish customs and scriptures, produced in the language of Islam and in the midst of the Islamic polity.

Attitudes to Other Religions
Attitudes to Other Religions

Author: David Arthur Pailin

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780719010651

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Ch. 5 (p. 63-80), "The Treatment of Judaism", discusses the attempts of Christian apologists to reconcile the divine origin of the Jewish religion with its "defectiveness", yet at the same time not to impute any defect to God or His revelation. Christian theologians criticized Judaism, reflecting New Testament strictures and current anti-Jewish polemics, in their arguments for the truth of Christianity. Gives examples of the views expressed by various theologians. Pp. 181-197 contain excerpts from texts by Isaac Barrow, Pierre Bayle, Charles Leslie, and Bernard Picart.

'Turquerie' and the Politics of Representation, 1728-1876
'Turquerie' and the Politics of Representation, 1728-1876

Author: Nebahat Avcioglu

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780754664222

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Devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in this study Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected constructions, and links them to notions of self-representation and politics.

Drudgery Divine
Drudgery Divine

Author: Jonathan Z. Smith

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780728601581

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era
Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era

Author: John Watkins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1317098056

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The first full length volume to approach the premodern Mediterranean from a fully interdisciplinary perspective, this collection defines the Mediterranean as a coherent region with distinct patterns of social, political, and cultural exchange. The essays explore the production, modification, and circulation of identities based on religion, ethnicity, profession, gender, and status as free or slave within three distinctive Mediterranean geographies: islands, entrepôts and empires. Individual essays explore such topics as interreligious conflict and accommodation; immigration and diaspora; polylingualism; classical imitation and canon formation; traffic in sacred objects; Mediterranean slavery; and the dream of a reintegrated Roman empire. Integrating environmental, social, political, religious, literary, artistic, and linguistic concerns, this collection offers a new model for approaching a distinct geographical region as a unique site of cultural and social exchange.