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Ironically, even surprisingly, the perceived intellectual threat of Hellenistic thought, particularly Aristotelianism in its Neoplatonic garb, was in the end overcome by a gradual process of co-option in which the Greek sciences were actively "appropriated" and completely "naturalized" to such an extent that ibn Khaldun in the fifteenth century was drawn to observe that one could no longer differentiate between kalam and falsafah, so much had the two been fused together. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo, professor of political sociology at the American University of Cairo, and currently a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Eager readers of the Muquadimah know that Ibn Khaldun considered competing explanations for the success of Arab regimes in the 13th century. |
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