Benjamin Cain
Feb 9, 2024

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No, I've written elsewhere about the irony that the Muslim world started off modern and progressive, and ended up medieval, whereas the reverse is true of Christendom. The Muslim world has changed, and I'm talking here about its current status.

Early Islam had independent reasons for being progressive, but I don't think its advances in math and science were equivalent to Europe's scientific revolution. Europe was forced to modernize because of the magnitude of its revolution, whereas early Islam's pro-science attitude wasn't so powerful that it put a stamp on all Islam, preventing its slide into its current medievalism.

https://medium.com/gods-funeral/waiting-for-godot-in-the-middle-easts-holy-wars-d15f325ed4cd?sk=f37856eec7437df99b3b196220aa2c42

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-clash-between-medievalism-and-modernity-in-the-middle-east-f0153889d6e4?sk=8477c95c04cac013ba84f919aefa3805

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Benjamin Cain
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