re: #90 CuriousLurker

Without having read much of him, my understanding is that the singling him out as some sort of extreme metaphysical evil who retarded all science is dumb; he said some things that were not helpful to science but there are oodles of Christians who said similar stuff and we managed to have an Enlightenment just fine.

The reasons for the lack of an Islamic enlightenment seem like a long, complex story, and I’d blame the Ottoman empire a lot more than any individual Islamic scholar.