Islam Without Europe Louis Castonguay The book also assesses Western

The book also assesses Western recognition of Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008 and how it has been leveraged by Russia to support its narrative of the recent Georgian conflicts

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Islam Without Europe Louis Castonguay The book also assesses WesternReplete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund, Dallal argues, the eighteenth century prior to systematic European encounters was one of the most fertile eras in Islamic thought. Ranging across vast