Islamic Thought through Protestant eyes: by Mehmet Karabela, Routledge Research in Early Modern History, New York & London, Routledge, 2021, xvi + 369 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367549541.

Lutheran writers then compared this portrayal of illogical Islam with the irrational enthusiasm of their Pietist colleagues and, conversely, to use Islam as a foil to defend Lutheran "rational religion" against Enlightenment scepticism. Karabela's major point is that we cannot comprehend the developments within post-Reformation Protestantism without placing it in a global context, showing how interaction with Islam reshaped attitudes and beliefs. Mehmet Karabela's translation and analysis of seventeen printed Latin dissertations and disputations defended and presented at German universities through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries provides a fascinating window into scholarly Protestant attitudes toward Islam. [Extracted from the article]