Early Quakers And Islam

Author : Justin J. Meggitt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498291941

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Early Quakers and Islam by Justin J. Meggitt Pdf

Early Quaker encounters with Muslims in the seventeenth century helped generate some of the most distinctive and, at times, sympathetic Christian responses to Islam found in the early modern era. Texts such as George Fox's To the Great Turk (1680), in which he engaged in extensive, constructive exegesis of the Qur'an, demonstrate a conception of Islam and Muslims that disrupts many prevailing assumptions of the period. Some responses are all the more striking as they came about as a reaction to the enslavement of a number of Quakers by Muslims in North Africa, where, paradoxically, they often experienced religious freedom denied them at home. This study seeks to understand how and why this heterodox Christian sect created such unusual interpretations of Islam by analyzing the experience of these slaves and scrutinizing the distinctive, oppositional culture of the movement to which they belonged. The work has implications that go beyond the specific subject of study and raises questions about the role that such things as apocalypticism and sectarianism can play in interreligious encounters, and the analytical limitations of Orientalism in characterizing Christian representations of Islam in the early modern period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004326637

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 8. Northern and Eastern Europe (1600-1700) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, volume 8 (CMR 8) is a history of everything that was written on relations in the period 1600-1700 in Northern and Eastern Europe. Its detailed entries contain descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details about individual works.

Author : Bernadette Andrea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139468022

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Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature by Bernadette Andrea Pdf

In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic correspondence between Queen Elizabeth I and the Ottoman Queen Mother Safiye at the end of the sixteenth century, and resituates canonical accounts, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's travelogue of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Her study advances our understanding of how women negotiated conflicting discourses of gender, orientalism, and imperialism at a time when the Ottoman empire was hugely powerful and England was still a marginal nation with limited global influence. This book is a significant contribution to critical and theoretical debates in literary and cultural, postcolonial, women's, and Middle Eastern studies.

Author : David Thomas,John A. Chesworth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004281110

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 6 Western Europe (1500-1600) by David Thomas,John A. Chesworth Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, volume 6 (CMR 6), covering the years 1500-1600, is a continuing volume in a history of relations between followers of the two faiths as it is recorded in their written works. Together with introductory essays, it comprises detailed entries on all the works known from this century. This volume traces the attitudes of Western Europeans to Islam, particularly in light of continuing Ottoman expansion, and early despatches sent from Portuguese colonies around the Indian Ocean. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 6, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a fundamental tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section editors: John Azumah, Clinton Bennett, Luis Bernabé Pons, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, John-Paul Ghobrial, David Grafton Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Abdulkadir Hashim, Şevket Küçükhüseyin, Andrew Newman, Gordon Nickel Claire Norton, Douglas Pratt, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Davide Tacchini, Serge Traore, Carsten Walbiner

Author : Yosef Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527504301

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Early Modern Ethnic and Religious Communities in Exile by Yosef Kaplan Pdf

In the Early Modern period, the religious refugee became a constant presence in the European landscape, a presence which was felt, in the wake of processes of globalization, on other continents as well. During the religious wars, which raged in Europe at the time of the Reformation, and as a result of the persecution of religious minorities, hundreds of thousands of men and women were forced to go into exile and to restore their lives in new settings. In this collection of articles, an international group of historians focus on several of the significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The contributions here discuss a broad range of topics, including the ways in which these communities of belief retained their identity in foreign climes, the religious meaning they accorded to the experience of exile, and the connection between ethnic attachment and religious belief, among others.

Author : Samara Anne Cahill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684480999

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Intelligent Souls? by Samara Anne Cahill Pdf

Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents. A second tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft, Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the “otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : C. Wess Daniels,Robynne Rogers Healey,Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004365070

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Quaker Studies: An Overview by C. Wess Daniels,Robynne Rogers Healey,Jon R. Kershner Pdf

Jon R. Kershner, Robynne Rogers Healey and C. Wess Daniels explore the historiography and contemporary fields of Quaker theology and philosophy, history, and the rise of sociology. Developments within Quaker Studies are compared to external sources and tracked over time.

Author : Mehmet Karabela
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000369847

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Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes by Mehmet Karabela Pdf

Early modern Protestant scholars closely engaged with Islamic thought in more ways than is usually recognized. Among Protestants, Lutheran scholars distinguished themselves as the most invested in the study of Islam and Muslim culture. Mehmet Karabela brings the neglected voices of post-Reformation theologians, primarily German Lutherans, into focus and reveals their rigorous engagement with Islamic thought. Inspired by a global history approach to religious thought, Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes offers new sources to broaden the conventional interpretation of the Reformation beyond a solely European Christian phenomenon. Based on previously unstudied dissertations, disputations, and academic works written in Latin in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Karabela analyzes three themes: Islam as theology and religion; Islamic philosophy and liberal arts; and Muslim sects (Sunni and Shi‘a). This book provides analyses and translations of the Latin texts as well as brief biographies of the authors. These texts offer insight into the Protestant perception of Islamic thought for scholars of religious studies and Islamic studies as well as for general readers. Examining the influence of Islamic thought on the construction of the Protestant identity after the Reformation helps us to understand the role of Islam in the evolution of Christianity.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982145118

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African Founders by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new, distinctly American culture. Drawing on decades of research, some of it in western Africa, Fischer recreates the diverse regional life that shaped the early American republic. He shows that there were varieties of slavery in America and varieties of new American culture, from Puritan New England to Dutch New York, Quaker Pennsylvania, cavalier Virginia, coastal Carolina, and Louisiana and Texas. This landmark work of history will transform our understanding of America’s origins.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004388178

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Quakers and Native Americans by Anonim Pdf

Quakers and Native Americans is a collection of essays examining the history of interactions between Quakers and American Indians from the 1650s, emphasising American Indian influence on Quaker history as well as Quaker influence on U.S. policy toward American Indians.

Author : Robynne Rogers Healey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271089676

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Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830 by Robynne Rogers Healey Pdf

This third installment in the New History of Quakerism series is a comprehensive assessment of transatlantic Quakerism across the long eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with politics, trade, industry, and science. The contributors to this volume interrogate and deconstruct this paradox, complicating traditional interpretations of what has been termed “Quietist Quakerism.” Examining the period following the Toleration Act in England of 1689 through the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation in North America, this work situates Quakers in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. Three thematic sections—exploring unique Quaker testimonies and practices; tensions between Quakerism in community and Quakerism in the world; and expressions of Quakerism around the Atlantic world—broaden geographic understandings of the Quaker Atlantic experience to determine how local events shaped expressions of Quakerism. The authors challenge oversimplified interpretations of Quaker practices and reveal a complex Quaker world, one in which prescription and practice were more often negotiated than dictated, even after the mid-eighteenth-century “reformation” and tightening of the Discipline on both sides of the Atlantic. Accessible and well-researched, Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690-1830, provides fresh insights and raises new questions about an understudied period of Quaker history. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Richard C. Allen, Erin Bell, Erica Canela, Elizabeth Cazden, Andrew Fincham, Sydney Harker, Rosalind Johnson, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Jon Mitchell, and Geoffrey Plank.

Author : Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107050525

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Early Quakers and their Theological Thought by Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.

Author : Zulfiqar Ali Shah
Publisher : Claritas Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781800119840

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Islam and The English Enlightenment by Zulfiqar Ali Shah Pdf

“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 “Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah’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

Author : Augustus Charles Bickley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590085400

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George Fox and the Early Quakers by Augustus Charles Bickley Pdf

Author : Simone Maghenzani,Stefano Villani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429516849

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British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600–1900 by Simone Maghenzani,Stefano Villani Pdf

This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. Continental Europe was considered a missionary land—another periphery of the world, whose centre was imperial Britain. British missions to Europe were informed by religious experiments in America, Africa, and Asia, rendering these offensives against Europe a true form of "imaginary colonialism". British Protestant missionaries often understood themselves to be at the forefront of a civilising project directed at Catholics (and sometimes even at other Protestants). Their mission was further reinforced by Britain becoming a land of compassionate refuge for European dissenters and exiles. This book engages with the myth of International Protestantism, questioning its early origins and its narrative of transnational belonging, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestant land of hope and glory. In the history of western Christianities, "converting Europe" had a role that has not been adequately investigated. This is the story of the attempted, and ultimately failed, effort to convert a continent.