TY - BOOK AU - Akkach, Samer TI - 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi: Islam and the Enlightenment SN - 9781851685080 U1 - 297 PY - 2007/// CY - England PB - OneWord Publication KW - Islam KW - ʿAbd al-Ghani ibn Ismāʿil Nābulusī (1641-1731) KW - Sufism KW - Islamic philosophy N1 - Studies the life and works of ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi, a Damascene scholar and Sufi (1641-1731), showing that he was more than a mystic: through unpublished biographical sources and works, the author argues that al-Nabulusi was involved in early expressions of rationalism in the Islamic world and helped signal beginnings of modernity and “Islamic Enlightenment”. ER -