Is Islam a Western Religion?

Let's Talk Religion

Mar 11, 2025•26 min•Ep. 135

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Sources/Recomended Reading:

Ahmed, Shahab (2017). "What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic". Princeton University Press.

Bulliet, Richard (2004) "The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization". Columbia University Press.

Melvin-Koushki, Matthew (2017). "Powers of One: The Mathematicalization of the Occult Sciences in the High Persianate Tradition". Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 5, no. 1: 127-99.

Ragep, F. Jamil (2004). "Copernicus and His Islamic Predecessors: An Aspect of Islamic Influence on Science". Osiris 16 n.s.: 49-71.

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