[FRIAM] Islamic Enlightenment?

[Frank Wimberly]

I think you can make the case that Islamic people partly enabled the
European Renaissance.  There was a library in Alhambra (?) that preserved
original Greek and Christian writings.  I wonder if they were copied by
hand in order to make them more widely available.

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:04 PM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I thought that, too. But either way, this is the only recent article
> I've found that talks about how the enlightenment isn't a Western
> Exceptionalist thing. I've heard some black radicals claim that several
> other cultures have had something similar at other times and to other
> extents. But I'm not well read enough to know where, when, who, etc.
>
>
> On 9/10/21 3:58 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> > It seems somewhat limiting to, even partially, equate 'enlightenment'
> with critical philosophy as this article does. The efflorescence of ideas,
> of sciences (especially astronomy, math, and medicine), and arts that
> occurred in the Islamic world long before the European Renaissance would
> seem a better foundation to conclude that Islam was already enlightened
> during (and before) the European Middle Ages.
> >
> > davew
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, at 2:26 PM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
> >>
> >> Are Islamic philosophers critical of authority?
> >>
> https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/09/are-islamic-philosophers-critical-authority
> >>
> >> "All this sheds an interesting light on a frequently asked question,
> >> which is why the Islamic world never experienced something like the
> >> European Enlightenment. Of course, that's a complicated issue. But part
> >> of the answer might simply be this: to the extent that 'enlightenment'
> >> involves the emergence of intellectuals who step back from the typical
> >> views of their society, and critically evaluate prevailing religious
> >> and philosophical ideas, the Islamic world was already 'enlightened'
> >> during the European Middle Ages."
>
>
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