Snake Featherston
Banned
I think it can be argued that while the Enlightenment arose clearly from its precursor civilization, it was also in some ways a real break with the Europe that had existed prior to that. If in some part of the Muslim world, it does not have to be the Middle East, the Enlightenment had happened there instead of Europe, what would it have looked like? Enlightenment Modernity in Europe led rather directly to the bloodbaths in Russia and in France, which in part had to do with Latin-Rite Europe's centering on belief as key. Islam has centered less on belief, so would an Islamic vision of modernity lead to the kind of horrors modern times did from a Christian viewpoint?