Earlier we had a thread regarding the influence of Islam on the Renaissance.
Some of you might find the topic of the following conference interesting;
Retelling the Renaissance, East and West
"Retelling the Renaissance, East and West"
Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University, 30
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I'm not sure this is the point being raised in Baha'i texts, but I think
you're basically correct and the manuscript evidence partially supports such a
view. That is, there are many manuscripts, copies of Greek works in European
collections today in Arabic or with Arabic and Farsi marginal
Dear Khazeh,
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Thanks for the quotations. I'm in agreement with Mark on this question.
Recent scholarship on the Greek dependency theme, if anyone is interested in the
contemporary scholarship on this question, argues that the Jews barrowed from
the Greeks rather than the Greek barrowing fro
Khazeh,
At 08:23 AM 9/18/03 +0100, you wrote:
>>>Except that if you really carefully read Baha'u'llah He reveals that the Authors of
>>>Classicism derived their inspiration from the Prophets:<<
Presumably, in repeating these Eastern narratives, Baha'u'llah and `Abdu'l-Baha were
attempting to te
I think the point being raised is that to the largest extent Christian monasteries and libraries did not preserve Greek and Roman philosophy in their collections. This is because the ecclesiastical hermits considered such things trivial compared to treatises on Christianity and the pre-Christian sc
hority on this matter
The Guardian hopes this will better enable you to understand our wonderful
Faith -- for a living religion it is, and not merely a philosophy!
(Shoghi Effendi, Arohanui - Letters to New Zealand, p. 88)*
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<<"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 indivi
> "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
> bel
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> "It is wholly unfair to attribute the efflorescence of European
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> 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
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"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 Dispens
"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, A
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