Islamic contributions to development of the western sciences technologies, and thoughts
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2014
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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This dissertation investigates the contributions of the Islamic civilisation to the development of the western world. In spite of the fact that most western scholars ignored those contributions such as Bernard Lewis, there were other Islamic and even western intellectual figures who affirmed this reality among them Seyyed Hussein Nasr. As a matter of fact, this research attempts at unveiling the realities behind the controversial ideologies that focus on the idea of the islamic contributions in the building of the western civilization between approval and denial. In order to support this, the research was pursued under a form of comparative study between two prominent figures; a muslim and a Westerner scholar. The latter who criticized the bases of the Islamic civilization and denied the existence of any form of give and take between the two civilizations and Nasr who was successful, to a great extent, in proving the profound role of the islamic contributions to the advancement of western scientific enterprises, through the use of certain historical and scientific evidences.
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Islamic civilisation, Western world : Lewis, Bernard