The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West

1. Introduction: A Thousand Years of Amnesia
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

2. The Arabs and the Italian Renaissance
Jack Goody

3. Re-orienting the Reformation? Prolegomena to a History of the Reformation’s Connection with the Islamic World
Frédérique Guerin

4. The Possible Contribution of Islamic Legal Institutions to the Emergence of a Rule of Law and the Modern State in Europe
Lisa Watanabe

5. Islamic Commerce and Finance in the Rise of the West
John M. Hobson

6. Suppressed or Falsified History? The Untold Story of Arab-Islamic Rationalist Philosophy
Samar Attar

7. A Forgotten Debt: Humanism and Education, from the Orient to the West
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou

8. The Arabic-Latin Intercultural Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe: Historical Context and Case Studies
Mohammed Abattouy

9. Way Forward: Implications for Contemporary Trans-cultural Relations
Nayef R. F. Al-Rodhan

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, International Organization, Middle Eastern Politics, Political Sociology, Political Science, Globalization