The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment
Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought
Samar Attar
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment
Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought
Samar Attar
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A collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers.
This is not only a scholarly book which fills a serious gap in classical Arabic studies, it is also a timely foray into the ever intensifying east-west debate. . . . Attar managed to bring together a wealth of information based on her grasp of Western and Arab intellectual history, in order to re-establish the lost connection between the thought of Western enlightenment and the Arab and Islamic rationalist and philosophical tradition. This is a tour de force, a must reading for all those who have despaired over the irrationalist attack on Muslim civilization and its adherents in recent years. Attar's work is in the finest tradition of comparative literary criticism and a painstakingly careful study which finally answers many questions left obscured by the fog of ideological works, medieval and modern.
Attar's focused study... remains indispensable in a world where the leader of the current super power has to remind us all about these longstanding— and ultimately mutually sustaining—connections, which we ignore at our peril.
Samar Attar's Hayy ibn Yaqzan is a man for our times, a teacher of toleration and even a relativist of sorts. That will be hard to accept for those brought up to think of Ibn Tufayl's book as somehow unfolding 'the secrets of the Oriental wisdom mentioned' by Avicenna. But Attar has answers for such cavils and is adept at pointing to the many authors in the early modern Western tradition who may have drawn, wittingly or not, upon Ibn Tufayl's philosophical novel.
Samar Attar has published widely in both English and Arabic in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, migration, and gender studies.
This is not only a scholarly book which fills a serious gap in classical Arabic studies, it is also a timely foray into the ever intensifying east-west debate. . . . Attar managed to bring together a wealth of information based on her grasp of Western and Arab intellectual history, in order to re-establish the lost connection between the thought of Western enlightenment and the Arab and Islamic rationalist and philosophical tradition. This is a tour de force, a must reading for all those who have despaired over the irrationalist attack on Muslim civilization and its adherents in recent years. Attar's work is in the finest tradition of comparative literary criticism and a painstakingly careful study which finally answers many questions left obscured by the fog of ideological works, medieval and modern.
Attar's focused study... remains indispensable in a world where the leader of the current super power has to remind us all about these longstanding— and ultimately mutually sustaining—connections, which we ignore at our peril.
Samar Attar's Hayy ibn Yaqzan is a man for our times, a teacher of toleration and even a relativist of sorts. That will be hard to accept for those brought up to think of Ibn Tufayl's book as somehow unfolding 'the secrets of the Oriental wisdom mentioned' by Avicenna. But Attar has answers for such cavils and is adept at pointing to the many authors in the early modern Western tradition who may have drawn, wittingly or not, upon Ibn Tufayl's philosophical novel.
Samar Attar has published widely in both English and Arabic in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, migration, and gender studies.