NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND
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One thing that is apparent when you look under the
hood of your ignorance you are likely to find a world teeming with undiscovered
gems and to come to realize what you thought you knew, you didn’t, and what you
assumed to be true, wasn’t.
This describes the “Golden Age of Arabic-Islam Arts
and Sciences,” and what we in the West owe to Muslim scholars those many centuries
ago. Their discoveries touch every
segment of our existence, and thanks largely to their diligence, especially in
the Medieval “Dark Ages,” much learning was preserved that might otherwise have
been lost.
It is a human story about a vibrant people who have
had their ups and downs the same as we in the West, and likewise, have had periods
of splendid prosperity and debilitating collapse. The Golden Age of Rome lasted for a thousand
years, the Golden Age of Islam for 500, and the Golden Age of Greece about 200
years.
Civilizations soar, fade and then collapse, but the
contributions remain always with us.
This has been the story of man.
This profile of the “Golden Age of Arab-Islamic Culture” is presented in
that same sense along with a quiet assessment of related follies, foibles and
triumphs of man along the way.
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NOWHERE MAN IN NOWHERE LAND -- PART SIXTEEN -- RISE OF THE CLERICAL SKEPTICS
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