The Islamic philosophical influx radically transformed Western learning after 1230

Evidence

It is as if modern economists in the tradition of Alfred Marshall and Keynes were suddenly to start using the language of Karl Marx, or liberal statesmen to express themselves in the idiom of Lenin. — R. W. Southern, Western Views of Islam in the Middle…, 327

Categorization

• QUESTION: Southern’s analogy only lands if the reader knows just how alien Moslem philosophy seemed to orthodox Christianity — worth chasing how deep the translation project’s ambition ran.

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• Renaissance scholarship long coexisted with unrevised medieval views of Islam. (similarity 0.79)
• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by the mid-fourteenth century (similarity 0.79)
• The Latin canon of Islam was built from earlier Eastern Christian polemics. (similarity 0.79)
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• Mid-fifteenth-century European thought on Islam surpassed all earlier and later centuries (similarity 0.79)
• The Western canon of Islam was fixed by 1350 and endured for centuries. (similarity 0.79)
• The Mongols’ appearance transformed the Western world picture of Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Arabic scientific writings served as medieval European textbooks for centuries. (similarity 0.78)
• Ideological study of Islam is fundamentally alike across Marxist and medieval Christian frames (similarity 0.78)
• Islamic civilization preserved ancient learning and stimulated Western scholasticism (similarity 0.78)
• An introspective self-critical turn marked a new era in Christian thought about Islam (similarity 0.78)