[PDF.95ak] The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought

The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought

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 | #2605597 in Books |  2010-02-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.17 x.57 x6.11l,.65 | File type: PDF | 194 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| an antidote to ignorance|By Peter E. Browne|When I told a colleague there had been an Enlightenment some 500 years before THE Enlightenment, and on European soil, this individual literally laughed in my face. And yet there are passages in HAYY IBN YAQDHAN that do not read at all like a Medieval text with a Medieval world view, but rather like something from the dawn of modernit| |This is not only a scholarly book which fills a serious gap in classical Arabic studies, it is also a timely foray into the ever intensifying east-west debate. . . . Attar managed to bring together a wealth of information based on her grasp of Western and Arab

The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays dealing with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. Had Edward Said known about the impact of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan on Europe throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, he might have reached different conclusions in his book Orientalism.

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought   |  Samar Attar. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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