Author: Mourad Wahba
Mourad Wahba and Mona Abousenna chair the Center for Inquiry in Egypt. Wahba is professor of education at the University of Ain Shams in Cairo and founder and honorary president of the Enlightenment Association and the Afro- Asian Philosophy Association. Abousenna is professor of English at Ain Shams and secretary general of the associations.
Why Secularization Failed in the Muslim World
Secularization failed early in the Muslim world. It was a lengthy process that unfolded in four stages. The first stage began as early as the fourth century c.e., when Christians and Jews—not the Muslims, as popularly supposed—undertook the translation of Greek philosophy into Arabic. The Muslim Arab philosophers al-Kindi, al-Farabi, and Avicenna benefited from these …