REL119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Gai Eaton

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20th century: the last half of the twentieth century experienced a significant change in western. A younger generation of scholars who are both muslim and western have emerged on the scene over the last few years. Either they are muslims raised in the west or westerners who have freely adopted islam lived and learned it from inside in the islamic world. Scholars belonging to this group are now beginning to take up a variety of academic positions in europe and america and creating authoritative works on different aspects of. Islamic studies in many circles the anti-islamic attitude to islamic studies persists. Some scholars tend to apply non-islamic - strictly secularist ideas drawn to islam from different currents in western philosophy and social sciences. We are joined in this chorus by a number of christian voices from militant groups who talk as if at the time of the crusades we were living in france in the twelfth century.

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