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From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Islam Birth Date
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:35:19 -0800




> That has to be one of the most stunningly ignorant things I have ever seen
> out of any of your emails. And that's something. Considering a significant
> portion of my dissertation is on Islamic optics and physiology and its
> philosophical roots, we can compare notes if you like. Avicenna, Averroes,
> Hunain ibn Is-haq, Al-Kindi, Alhazen - Asian???? They only cite Aristotle
> every other sentence! It was a mere 300 year "traffic" reroute that
happened
> to ram through their philosophy, medicine, physics, optics, physiology,
and
> mathematics! The degree to which you are willing to blatantly distort
things
> to support your worldview, and this from one who accuses others of
precisely
> that.
>
> Anthony Crifasi

You must be going the wrong way in time. Both Mohammed, and Avicenna, lived
long after the the presocratics, Aristotles, etc. Islam started in the 7th
Century, 1300 years BP.

Are you just starting out in philosophy? You must be a sophomore, or
possibly just started a metaphysics course in second year.

Aristotle
[384-322 b.c.]


Greek philosopher, student of Plato. As a physical scientist, Aristotle
stressed direct observation and induction; in biology his teleology is still
accepted by vitalists. His studies included comparative anatomy and
physiology, embryology, and ethology. Unfortunately, Aristotle adopted
Empedocles' theory of the heart's being the center of intelligence, and also
the theory of the four elements and the four qualities (cf. humoralism).



Also Allah is the same God as the Jews and Christians have.

Islam

The religion established by the Prophet Muhammad following divine
revelations beginning in 610. The name means submission (to the will of God)
and a Muslim is one who submits; the Islamic God is known as Allah. After a
series of military campaigns to convert the Arab people, from 632 Islam
spread, largely by conquest, extending eventually from the Atlantic to
southeast Asia. Islam is monotheistic and claims to be the last of a series
of divine revelations to humans. Its success was aided by its capacity to
assimilate the cultural heritage of conquered territories without
compromising the core of the religion itself. In the 20th century, while
most other major religions are declining, Islam has continued to attract new
believers.

http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=969120&secid=.-&hh=1


Avicenna (980 - 1037)
Persian philosopher and physician.

Avicenna received extensive education in science and philosophy and served
various rulers during his life, as government official and physician. His
encyclopedia of philosophy, Ash-Shifa (The Recovery), encompasses logic,
psychology, metaphysics, and natural sciences and parts were subsequently
translated into Latin. Avicenna's Canon of Medicine, based on Roman and
Arabic medicine and his own medical knowledge, became a popular text
throughout the Middle East and Europe.
 http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=3292503&secid=.-&hh=1

Averroes Ibn Rushd; (1126 - 1198)
Muslim philosopher and a judge in Córdoba and Seville.

Averroes' main works were his commentaries on Aristotle, which greatly
influenced the philosophy of medieval Christianity. He defended philosophy
as the highest form of enquiry, holding that faith and reason are not
necessarily in conflict but are separate ways of arriving at the truth.







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