Download or read book Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West written by George Makdisi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging beliefs about intellectual culture, Makdisi reaffirms the links between Western and Arabic thought and shows that although scholasticism and humanism have long been considered to be exclusive to the Western world, they have their roots in the medieval Islamic world.