If d’Herbelot was both respectful and systematic in his treatment of the Islamic world, Enlightenment philosophes were less so. Montesquieu, the great proponent of mixed government, comparative ...

Aleppo and Edinburgh became unlikely partners, connecting worlds through trade, science and the exchange of ideas ...

The French political figures who established the laïcité law of 1905 were continuing the legacy of the Enlightenment ... symbol of female subjugation. The status of women in Islam appears ...

Holding the ceremony for defending the oppressed people of Palestine on the last Friday of Ramadan is a good tradition named Quds Day, and is the symbol ... of enlightenment movements, and until the ...

The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment, by Alexander Bevilacqua, Harvard University Press, RRP£25.95/$35.00, 360 pages Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography ...

It means that enlightenment which should have challenged ... Attack on hijab, scarf, mosques, Islamic centres, minarets and other symbols of Islamic religion surged. Second, one cannot just ...

The expression "Islam of enlightenment" reflects a past that ... as Chems-Eddine and I do. We are the symbol of what a debating society like France can produce, from which hope could be born ...

and the Cold War), calls for enlightenment in the Islamic world typically fail to recognize a few vital facts, not least of which is that Islamic societies have been grappling for generations with the ...

Babette Francis, Toorak, Vic PATRICK Ball agrees (Letters, 3/7) with the letter writer who claimed that Islam’s problem is that it never had an Enlightenment. However, the case for human dignity ...