Full Description
Western scholars have ignored the contributions of the Golden Age of medieval Islamic civilization prior to the rise of colleges and universities in the West. In "Higher Education in Islam", Charles Stanton describes the tremendous debt that western civilization owes to that brilliant period of medieval Islam, when the arts and sciences, philosophy and theology and literature in general reached the pinnacle of their development. Stanton provides a synthesis of current research on this important era in Islamic cultural, religious and intellectual civilization.
Contents
Islam and Arabic - the foundations of higher learning; formal institutions of higher education; Hellenistic influence on higher learning; the flowering of Islamic sciences; spontaneous centres of higher learning; transmission of higher learning to medieval Europe; higher learning in classical Islam - final thoughts.
