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What Islam Did
For Us:
Understanding Islam's Contribution to Western Civilization
by
Tim Wallace-Murphy
This
work is an essential reference to a historical context where
"The People of the Book" enjoyed peaceful co-existence with a
hugely important cultural exchange that had enormous benefit for
western civilisation. Tim Wallace-Murphy takes us from the
initiatory tradition and origins of Judaism and Christianity
into the foundations of Christianity and of Islam, to Christian
Europe and its response to Islam and into the current period of
hostility. He considers the "West's Debt to Islam" including
geometry, astronomy, their transmission of the Greek Classics
and scholarship, medicine, architecture and sociology. He finds
hope for the future in Islam's mainstream characteristics of
tolerance, creativity and respect. He challenges us to "Grant
them the same respect that they have shown to us when they,
unconditionally, shared the fruits of their culture with us."
What Islam Did For Us: Understanding Islam's Contribution to
Western Civilization by
Tim Wallace-Murphy
ISBN-10: 1842932012
ISBN-13: 978-1842932018
Alhambra,
Granada
The Alhambra in Granada is the example par excellence of a point
where this culture was expressed.
El Palacio de
Nazaries
                                                                              
El Generalife
                                
Alcazaba
               
http://www.alhambra-patronato.es/
Photographs © Iain Laird 2013-2014 |
