My new book deals with HUMANISM in the MODERN ARAB WORLD: How Arab reformers in the modern era developed ideas of enlightenment and a new perception of Europe and the Greek antiquity.

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“… eine hochinteressante Lektüre”, “[stellt] einen würdigen Einstieg zu einer Reihe [dar], die es sich zur Aufgabe macht, eine ‘Plattform für fällige Orientierungsfragen und Diskussionsprozesse’ zu sein. Auf weitere Bände darf man gespannt sein.”
– Aufklärung und Kritik, 1/2007

“… Kreutz’s book is not well distributed in the English-speaking world, although it clearly deserves to be read. (…) The addition of such serious scholarly work to the field of classical receptions in the modern Arab world is most welcome. (…) I would like to stress that this book will be immense interest to anyone wanting to study classical reception in a non-European setting. (…) For the age of the Nahḍa, the Arabic ‘Renaissance’ of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Kreutz’ work provides rich details about how Arab intellectuals studied, translated and interpreted Greek texts; and how they often resorted to the classical past as a referential model in their anti-colonial struggle. It can only be hoped that this attractively priced book (€17.90) will find a wide readership.”
– International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 95-106.