Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century

Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

Khaled El-Rouayheb (Author)

9781107617568, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 July 2017

415 pages

23 x 15.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.63 kg

'This is an important book. \u2026 one that scholars of the early modern period will no doubt read avidly. \u2026 In its nuances and detailed reading of the long seventeenth century, El-Rouayheb's book contains numerous insights into the significance and nature of both earlier and later periods and should be read by intellectual historians of Islam, regardless of the period in which they specialize.' Justin Stearns, Journal of the American Oriental Society

For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or ]