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Once Upon the Orient Wave: Milton and the Arab Mus by Eid Abdallah Dahiyat

ISBN: 9781843913610 PUBLISHER: Hesperus Press Ltd FORMAT: Hardback PAGES: 120 PUBLICATION DATE: 27.04.2012 DIMENSIONS: 198mmX129mmX13mm 272grams

DESCRIPTION: John Milton's poems Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are among the greatest pieces of writing in the English language. Like other writers of his time, Milton had only a sketchy idea of Islam and the Arab world, from travellers and linguists who had made the arduous journey to and from the Middle East. But buried in his works are signs that Milton had absorbed ideas and influences from Islam and Arab culture. Professor Dahiyat shows how from the Middle Ages, partly as an attempt to counteract Islam with Christianity, a wide range of writers and researchers spoke, read and wrote Arabic and published books. Dahiyat then shows how many different references there are to the Orient and Islam in Milton's writings, and discusses the later response of Arab writers and scholars to Milton's major works.

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