Reading Darwin In Arabic 18601950
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780226001302
Description: Here, 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.