There is an idea common in almost all circles, including among Arab intellectuals, says that the philosophical rationality is the share of Europe only, and did not know other civilizations. This idea has taken root in the nineteenth century after Europe has achieved impressive victories at various levels of scientific, industrial, and technological. Then left the Arab world and Islamic world and light years behind. And became European civilization look like a miracle compared to earlier eras, especially the Middle Ages, which lasted a thousand years: ever since the fifth century and until the fifteenth century. They started to accuse the Middle Ages as a barren desert of thought. Become all the darkness in the darkness and the impact of science or of the mind where.
Since the Arab-Islamic civilization are all positioned in terms of time in the medieval period, it is thrown the other also in the arena of brutality and barbarism. Thus we lost the only bright period in our history if we exclude the period of the Renaissance in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. And we have become like us, not the past nor present, the minimum and the Hereafter! Deleted and deletes the full in the history of thought and civilization, but fortunately, the senior historian of France in recent years started re-consideration to the medieval period and say that they were not all very dark in total darkness. There is no doubt that the theology was the master of the situation and philosophy was a maid, but there was a philosophy or a rational philosophical questions to be reckoned with.
In fact, they did not re-consideration to these times for us but for them their own! They did it to celebrate the top thinkers in that period, such as Apilar (1079 1142), and Thomas Aquinas (1225 1274), and Roger Bacon (1215 1294) and many others. All of these lived and wrote and died before the advent of Descartes, ie before the founding philosophy in the modern sense of the word. But since they re-consideration to the thinkers of the medieval thinkers was their account indirectly. We say this in particular that the thinkers in those times were students of our intellectuals. Thus he became the French researchers recognize the existence of recent philosophical thought in the land of Islam after he was Renan (1823 1892) has denied this, saying that Arabs and Muslims simply shift or translators of Greek philosophy.
It is known that Renan's thesis had seized control of the Orientalism Until recently, it took until the Arab intellectuals modernist view of the clicks of the knock-dazzle, or late applicant. Among contemporary researchers who dug up the forgotten legacy of the Arabs recall Alan Dolibera professor at the Universities of Paris and Geneva. This specialized scholar on philosophy in the Middle Ages is not ashamed to say that the Muslims were the masters of Europe in terms of philosophical thought and for many centuries.Thus Valaklanah philosophical is not exclusive to modern Europe, the Europe of post-Cartesian or post-Renaissance, but is found prior to that date.
The fact is that the path of philosophy is a long line winding up the Middle West, then East and West. Philosophy has moved from Athens to Haran, and Haran to Baghdad, and after she died or withered in the Middle Abbasid Islamic civilization collapse and fall of the golden age, she moved to the west of any of the Islamic Maghreb and Spain. I moved to Cordoba and Toledo. After the loss of Andalusia and the death of Ibn Rushd in 1198 died a second time our philosophy, but it has moved from Cordoba and Toledo to Paris and Cologne, and Prague, and Oxford, and Italy, etc. .. We have moved from us after they have taken to translate the books of all philosophers and insatiable eagerness. I have translated al-Farabi and Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, and others. When initiated a sleep history, they began to wake up, and that was stood up and stepped up and founded the all the modern civilization that dominates the world today, and we were students we were after the Masters. We import and we have become philosophical or scientific universities and institutes of higher education. He became senior intellectuals since the era of Mohamed Ali and even today are those who have studied at the universities of the Sorbonne, or Cambridge, or Oxford, Berlin, and then Harvard, or Princeton, etc. ..This is the cycle of philosophy, the course had not been interrupted for more than two thousand and five hundred years, and even today it is course linking the West Middle since Plato and Aristotle, through Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd, Farabi and the end of Saint Thomas Aquinas and then after him Descartes Vkant Fahigl, Marx, etc. .. And therefore there is no justification for such an absolute break set up by Europe between us and them, no justification for the contempt of those ethnic and historic Central European enshrined in Renan and others at the time of colonialism during the nineteenth century. All that is now under review and reconsider. We also had our contribution in the history of human civilization.Ignoring this contribution does not help start the European-Arab dialogue, or what is now called dialogue of civilizations. If admitted to the Europeans and the Americans also Bmdunithm of the Arab-Islamic philosophy, this will help to bridge the gap psychological and intellectual depths that separate us and them.
We say that and we know that this gap has grown wider and deeper after the attacks on New York and Washington. And become very dangerous and threaten the overall relations between the world of Islam-based world and the West.
In fact, we feed us from each other throughout history, and our interaction with each other and fighting us as Tkhasamna, and therefore there is absolutely no privacy separate from those of this party, except in the minds of some of the extremists on both sides.
It is known that ultra-person closed on himself and Iqinyate and can not interact with the other in any way. According to Alan Dolibera Alnhiat that all that took place in the West or in the east was due to the credit of the translation. When he stopped the Muslim world for the translation of the thirteenth century philosophy, and stopped dead civilization. Vatorgomh is the primary means of cultural interaction. Proof of this is that the rise of Japan itself began to translate European thought after a year (1868) In the dynasty «Meiji» famous. And then took the talk of the Enlightenment and the Renaissance, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johnny Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer, Hegel and Kant, as we speak and more. The only difference is that they succeeded in their renaissance or Antlaguethm while we are still blundering .. The odd thing is strange is that the radical Christians in Europe refused to take us or the pretext that they translated philosophers «infidels» or enemies of the religion! So they tried to prevent the translation of Averroes or Ibn Sina or others, but fortunately for Europe at the time the current open and intelligent Christian to overcome the current fundamentalist closed and the process of translation or walked out to the end, but not to late Renaissance Europe several centuries or perhaps could not and turned the . We conclude from all this to say that the Arab and Islamic world in general is invited in the coming years as more involved in the process of translation and cultural cross-pollination in its history. It will be the most important phase of the major translations that have occurred in the Abbasid period and more extensive. This is because modern civilization has been the accumulation of scientific discoveries and philosophical four centuries ago and to this day. It is not easy for us to pick up the pieces and understand what he has done all these revolutions of knowledge in a short period of time. But we have no other choice.Valthaddat intellectual has become an urgent need not be postponed, like industrial or agricultural modernization, but that intellectual modernization is a priority because it could lead to all this at the end of the day