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22 - Islamic philosophy and science

from PART IV - CULTURES, ARTS AND LEARNING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2011

By
S. Haq
Edited by
Robert W. Hefner
Robert W. Hefner
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Summary

Many speak of the ‘impact of the West’ – not of technicalism – on Islamdom, as if it were two societies, not two ages that met; as if it were that Western progress had finally reached the point where Muslims could no longer escape it, rather than that something new had happened to Western culture which thereby was happening to Islamdom and the whole world as well.

At the present juncture of our standard scholarship, and given our high-pitched cultural and methodological attitudes that still radiate resiliently from Enlightenment constructs, it is only with a good deal of nervousness that one attempts to present an overview of Islamic philosophy and science in the modern period, especially since 1800. As a matter of scholarly integrity, then, one ought to declare at the very outset that any such overview, written as it is within a hundred years from the First World War, has to be rather precarious and must be considered tentative, far from offering a complete picture; an overview that is perhaps lopsided, one that is open to all kinds of revisions, adjustments and even reversals.

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The New Cambridge History of Islam , pp. 549 - 571
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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