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Mujda
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Love this line “Nonetheless, the fearsome inquisitors never managed to put the jinn of Arab science back in the bottle.”
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“The verdict of history on this episode has been harsh & rightly so. The Church wilfully ignored the prescriptions of St Thomas - for the peaceful coexistence between faith & reason.”
— Mar 16, 2022 01:30PM
and
“The verdict of history on this episode has been harsh & rightly so. The Church wilfully ignored the prescriptions of St Thomas - for the peaceful coexistence between faith & reason.”
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Mujda
is on page 91 of 272
“Such precision in identifying the source of information and the insistence where possible on personal observation .. is a hallmark of Arab science. It is also the invaluable legacy of Islamic tradition in which enormous efforts were devoted to preserving and assessing critically the chain of transmission for any recorded saying of Muhammad pbuh.”
— Mar 12, 2022 02:29PM
Mujda
is on page 59 of 272
“Caliph al-Mansur’s decision to forsake Arab-dominated Damascus and base his new capital in Mesopotamia ratified fundamental changes at the heart of the Muslim world. Already the tribal organisation was giving way to a new one … gave rise to the modern city … unrelated ethnically diverse citizens interact with another under codes of legal & personal conduct…”
a cool way of looking at Baghdad’s founding
— Mar 09, 2022 11:51AM
a cool way of looking at Baghdad’s founding
