نگاهي گذرا به نقش اسلام در تمدن غربي

A cursory look at the role of Islam in Western civilization

Islam or Islamic civilization is one of the factors irrefutably influential on tile formation of new Western civilization especially on its philosophical, scientific and industrial aspects. The basic commonalities existing between three Abrahamic religions namely Judaism, Christianity and Islam are among the essential backgrounds of these influences. Similarly common philosophical background between Islam and the West and presence of Greek and Monotheistic principles excerpted from divine religions in Islamic philosophy are another ground for the approximation of these two civilizations. These common backgrounds paved the ground for the influence of Islamic culture and civilization on medieval West. It was through these channels that the philosophical, theological and scientific thoughts of the world of Islam were introduced to the Medieval West causing tremendous developments therein. Many Western scholars were educated under Muslim scholars in Muslim lands. Muslims and Christians were intermingled. Muslim works were translated from Arabic to Latin. These and other factors including trade and crusade wars were different channels through which Islamic science and culture were introduced to the West deeply influencing it.