SR BuRGE holds the position of research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in
London. He is the author of Angels in Islam (Routledge, 2012) and has also written on …

Thomas E. Burman's landmark 2007 study, Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140–
1560, revived interest in the translation and transmission of Islamic scripture in premodern …

THIS BOOK shows how much opportunity the field of Anglo-Islamic studies still offers future
scholars. Based on papers that were presented at a wonderful three-day conference held at …

Thomas E. Burman's Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140–1560 is an excellent
scholarly work that casts important light on Christian-Muslim relations, apologetics …

Ziad Elmarsafy's The Enlightenment Qur'an explores the impact of the Qur'an in the long
eighteenth century and how the politics of translation were navigated not just by Europeans …

The topic of this book is of such significance and currency that one wonders why it has
received so little attention. To be sure, there is no dearth of studies on the translation of the …

Not all pieces are as successful. Fred Parker's 'Classic simplicity'discusses this construction
of ancient writers and the response by modern translators, especially Pope, drawing an …

In 1744, a version of Voltaire's play Le fanatisme, ou, Mahomet le prophèteopened on the
London stage. The English title, Mahomet the Impostor, neatly captured a view of Islam …

The term “republic of letters” refers to an informal but important intellectual community of
European writers and scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They created …

The Qur'an was one of several works of Arabic literature to be popularized in Victorian
Britain, circulating in three variant translations during the late 19th Century in a range of …