Lockdown Lecture Synopsis for 20 May

CHRISTIAN & MOSLEM ENLIGHTENMENT

1. Terms Definitions & Lecture's Argument

2. Western ideas of superiority

3. Above belief challenged by World History Studies

1. The Arab Golden Age precedes both Renaissance and Enlightenment

2. Arabs/Ottomans and Renaissance

3. Arabs/Ottomans and Enlightenment

4. European Jews involvement with both movements

1. Modern hopes in this century and last of greater inter conflation of ideas, East and West, is proving to be a chimera

2. Where are we today? Where do we want to be? How can we reach it?