On 9/16/03 6:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> "It is wholly unfair to attribute the efflorescence of European 
culture
> during the Renaissance period to the influence of Christianity. It 
was
> mainly the product of the forces released by the Muhammadan 
Dispensation."
> (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
> believer, April 27, 1936; Lights of Guidance, 2nd edition p. 495)
> 
> Is there modern scholarship with evidence to back this up?
>

Check out these sites/pages

http://cyberistan.org/islamic/
http://mercury.spaceports.com/~islam/index2.htm
http://www.medievalhistory.net/islamica.htm
http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/commodity/1089/id118.htm
http://www.sierra-arts.net/ArticlesEssaysTheRenaissance.html
http://www.princeton.edu./~humcomp/scholars.html
http://www.mic.ki.se/Arab.html

Don C

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