Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the PastIslam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa to South East Asia. Yet many of the contributions of Muslim thinkers, scientists, and theologians, not to mention rulers, statesmen and soldiers, have been

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but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence

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and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination

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You Are Fire) celebrates the extraordinary career of Persia's great mystical poet

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and has been translated and commented on by many prominent scholars

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Hayy’s discoveries about God