Abstract
The paper discusses four interrelated themes. First, there is a description on the ―lost paradigm‖
of Islamic connections to European Renaissance, followed by a discussion of evidence that this
Renaissance depended crucially upon the intellectual armory acquired through prolonged
contacts with early Islamic civilization. The influence of many Muslim scholars on Western
Enlightenment also cannot be denied. The paper documents the influence of some key Islamic
scholars such as Al-Kindi, Ibn-e-Sina, Al-Ghazali and in particular Ibn-e-Rushd, whose
writings contributed hugely to the European Enlightenment. This is followed by a discussion
of the various sources of transmission of that intellectual armory that enabled Latin-Europeans
to exit from the Dark Ages and contributed towards medieval Renaissance as well as
subsequent Italian Renaissance.
Dr. S. M. Ghazanfar. (2011) CIVILIZATIONAL CONNECTIONS: EARLY ISLAM AND LATIN-EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE, Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Volume 1, Issue 2 .
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