Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950

Name: Reading Darwin in Arabic, 1860-1950
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ISBN: 9780226001302

ISBN-10: 022600130X

ISBN-13: 9780226001302

Edition: 2013

Authors: Marwa Elshakry

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In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and reading studies and weaving together the history of science with intellectual history, she explores Darwin’s global appeal from the perspective of several generations of Arabic readers and shows how Darwin’s writings helped alter the social and epistemological landscape of the Arab learned classes. Providing a close textual, political, and institutional analysis of the tremendous interest in Darwin’s ideas and other works on evolution,…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English