Jeremy Gilkison

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For almost a century the Christian and Islamic worldviews overlapped, especially their view of nature. The seam along that overlap was Aristotle, whom Arab scholars dubbed the Master of Those Who Know and whom Christian scholars would come to know as the Philosopher, as if there were no others of any lasting value.
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
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