Rebekah Mitsein
@rebekahmitsein.bsky.social
Teacher and scholar of 18th-century literature and culture at Boston College. Britain, Africa, New England, Caribbean.
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
The Eighteenth-Century Africa Publication Fellows rocked.
April 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Eighteenth-Century Africa Publication Fellows rocked.
You won't be surprised that Sale and his ilk lodged this accusation at M himself. Page 47.
June 19, 2024 at 2:25 AM
You won't be surprised that Sale and his ilk lodged this accusation at M himself. Page 47.
Possibly a reference to al-Ghazali? In the intro to his c18 trans of the Quran, Sale quotes al-Ghazali via Pococke critiquing people who unscrupulously claim divine revelation, "saying, It hath been thus said to us, and We have thus spoken." Page 177 of the 1734 edition.
June 19, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Possibly a reference to al-Ghazali? In the intro to his c18 trans of the Quran, Sale quotes al-Ghazali via Pococke critiquing people who unscrupulously claim divine revelation, "saying, It hath been thus said to us, and We have thus spoken." Page 177 of the 1734 edition.