THE WEST, ISLAM & ISLAMISM
By Caroline Cox and John Marks
Civitas. 115 pages. £6.00
ISBN 1 903 386 29 2
In the Middle Ages, Islamic thinkers such as Averroes, Avicenna and al-Hwarizmi were at the forefront of work in mathematics, philosophy and science.
Through the efforts of such people Aristotle was reintroduced to the West through Arabic translations. This in turn contributed to the development of scholastic theology which, whatever its faults, provided results of lasting importance in Christian theology. There were also intense debates between Jewish, Islamic and Christian thinkers over such topics as creation, divine and human action, and the character of divine law.
