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Page 83
... cultural importance of Islam lies in the fact that it brought finally together the two great intellectual streams ... culture was at once deeply unified and very diversified . The peoples of Islam were kept together and separated from ...
... cultural importance of Islam lies in the fact that it brought finally together the two great intellectual streams ... culture was at once deeply unified and very diversified . The peoples of Islam were kept together and separated from ...
Page 122
... culture , and this will apply just as well to scientific as to literary culture if one admits at all that distinction . It may be desirable to know more than one language , but the superficial knowledge of no matter how many will never ...
... culture , and this will apply just as well to scientific as to literary culture if one admits at all that distinction . It may be desirable to know more than one language , but the superficial knowledge of no matter how many will never ...
Page 185
... culture and must remain a part of it sub- servient to the rest . The best if not the only way of humanizing it is to consider it historically just as we have always considered the other cultural ele- ments ; one must study its genesis ...
... culture and must remain a part of it sub- servient to the rest . The best if not the only way of humanizing it is to consider it historically just as we have always considered the other cultural ele- ments ; one must study its genesis ...
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