Multimedia Collection
Forgetting the Arabs: Europe on the Cusp of the Renaissance
(When the World Spoke Arabic: The Golden Age of Arab Civilization series)
DVD
27 min
2004
DS36.85 .F67 2001 DVD
Why was Islamic philosophy, once the epitome of Arab learning, eventually rejected by Muslims? And why, after assimilating it, did Europeans distance themselves from its formulators? This program seeks to understand the religious climate of the late Middle Ages, in which universities and madrassas became centers of power and models for evolving sociopolitical systems. The potentially heretical nature of philosophy is also analyzed - in Islamic lands the djinni of intellectuality was put back in the bottle, but in Christendom it escaped the control of those who used it, paving the way for Renaissance humanism.
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