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"The Muslims Who Inspired Spinoza, Locke & Dafoe"
The wisdom of #IbnTufayl & #IbnRushd in reconciling religion & reason helped the European #Enlightenment.
Today it can help us Muslims, too.
My new piece in @nytopinion - and a teaser for my new book:
nytimes.com/2021/04/05/opi…
The wisdom of #IbnTufayl & #IbnRushd in reconciling religion & reason helped the European #Enlightenment.
Today it can help us Muslims, too.
My new piece in @nytopinion - and a teaser for my new book:
nytimes.com/2021/04/05/opi…
"Hayy ibn Yaqzan," the world’s first philosophical novel by 12th c Muslim polymath #IbnTufayl, made a bestseller in early modern Europe.
It inspired Enlightenment thinkers & Quaker theologians. They were allured by its religious #humanism: a cure to religious violence & bigotry.
It inspired Enlightenment thinkers & Quaker theologians. They were allured by its religious #humanism: a cure to religious violence & bigotry.
“Hayy ibn Yaqzan”s message was bold for its time: man was blessed with divine revelation from above, and with reason & conscience from within.
So, religion was a path to truth, but not the only path.
So, people could be wise & virtuous without religion or a different religion.
So, religion was a path to truth, but not the only path.
So, people could be wise & virtuous without religion or a different religion.
Context is the rise in interest in ethical treatment of animals - one thinks of #PeterSinger - and also a different way to approach thought in #Islam away from usual stereotypes 2/
The key text of the #Greek background is #Porphyry On Abstention books.google.co.uk/books?id=B5ojA… which presents a Neoplatonic case for forgoing meat as pleasure 3/
