European scholars and scientists studied and digested scientific and philosophical works built on the foundation that was set by Islamic civilization that preceded it, and the pioneers of European modernity borrowed from, and reproduced Muslim works before they began to add to […]
Is human progress in history a unilinear process from the ancient to the modern through the medieval or is it a multilinear progress with a great deal of complexity and many twists and turns? Both concepts have large following within the scholarly […]
Globalization is an advanced stage of social development, and represents a moment of intense convergence, whereby diverse cultures and societies across the globe and engaged in exchange of information, ideas, goods, experiences, and technologies. This raises two important questions: what accounts for such […]
This is the first in a series of essays that explores the meaning, scope, and history of globalization. We examine the impact of monotheism on the unfolding World History leading to our current moment of globalization. Why should we focus on the […]