A Dissonant Harmony of Civilisations
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- ISBN 9780750994149
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2020
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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We have rapidly grown used to the idea, particularly since the declaration of a worldwide war on terrorism, that between Islam and the West there exists a deep historical and ideological gulf. Christopher J. Walker turns such accepted views on their head and paints instead a picture of two belief systems that have a long history of toleration and mutual influence. Indeed, Islam has given a great deal to civilisation: essentially modern notions of free enquiry, rational experimentation, rational experimentation and the independence of science from religious authority are legacies of the Islamic world. Islam and the West is a thought-provoking study covering some of the cardinal encounters between Islamic and Western countries.
CHRISTOPHER J. WALKER worked in Southeby's department of historical and literary manuscripts before winning a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to write a history of modern Armenia. He has also written 'Visions of Ararat' and a 'Life of Oliver Baldwin', the son of a Conservative Prime Minister who became a labour MP.
