Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan 
The Role of the Arab-Islamic World in the Rise of the West [PDF ebook] 
Implications for Contemporary Trans-Cultural Relations

Introduction: A Thousand Years of Amnesia The Arabs and the Italian Renaissance Re-orienting the Reformation? Prolegomena for a History of the Reformation’s Connection with the Islamic World The Possible Contribution of Islamic Legal Institutions to the Emergence of a Rule of Law and the Modern State in Europe Islamic Commerce and Finance in the Rise of the West Suppressed or Falsified History? The Untold Story of Arab-Islamic Rationalist Philosophy A Forgotten Debt: Humanism and Education, from the Orient to the West The Arabic-Latin Intercultural Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Pre-modern Europe: Historial Context and Case Studies The Way Forward: Implications for Contemporary Trans-cultural Relations

MOHAMMED ABATTOUY Senior Scholar at the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, Manchester, UK and Head of the Philosophy Department, Mohammed Vth University, Rabat, Morocco SAMAR ATTAR Independent Scholar, who has taught English, Arabic and comparative literature in the USA, Canada, Algeria, Germany, Australia and Turkey. She has published extensively in both English and Arabic in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, migration and gender studies FREDERIQUE GUERIN Research Fellow and Programme Coordinator of the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland JACK GOODY Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge University, UK JOHN M. HOBSON Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK MOHAMMED-MAHMOUD OULD MOHAMEDOU Visiting Professor in the International History and Politics and Development departments of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland LISA WATANABE Research Fellow of the Geopolitics of Globalisation and Transnational Security Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland