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Thirty years ago an International Symposium was held in Bordeaux on ‘Classicism and Cultural Decadence in the History of Islam.’ It is well known that this decadence began since the thirteenth century with the death of Ibn Rushd who played an active role in shaping the European philosophical conscience in the transition from the Middle Age to the Enlightenment across the Renaissance, whereas he has been ever since totally alienated from Islamic culture.
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Wahba, M. (1987). Rationalism in the contemporary Arab world. In: Fløistad, G. (eds) African Philosophy. Contemporary Philosophy, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3517-4_11
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