(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 13 – ELIO CADELO – THE CLOSED WORLD (LEG Editions, 230 pages, 22 euros) Is there a moderate Islam? Why has terrorism taken root in Muslim countries? And above all, what has transformed the Islamic religion into a political creed? These are some of the questions answered by Elio Cadelo’s “Closed World” which analyzes “the conflict between Islam and modernity”, in the light of the scientific and technological development of our days.
According to Cadelo, science has carved a deep furrow between the West and Muslim countries. Few are the hints of the scientific gap that has deepened the rift between the two worlds in recent decades. Analysts, sociologists, historians of Islam and scholars of international politics to explain what is happening between the Muslim world and the West have placed, from time to time, at the center of the question colonialism, the North-South relationship of the world, the religion, the economy, the institutions of Islamic countries, democracy or the lack of democracy.
Often commonplaces have distorted the historical truth. Italy, in fact, did not emerge from the Middle Ages thanks to the encounter with Arab culture; Greek science and philosophy did not reach Italy thanks to the translations of Greek texts from Arabic and Humanism and the Renaissance did not sprout at all following the meeting of Italian and Muslim cultures.
For the first time, the essay brings to attention the so-called Arab Renaissance: a very brief parenthesis annihilated by religious repression that shattered all forms of freedom of thought in the bud, so much so that philosophers and scientists (such as Avempace, Averroè, Avicenna and others) were murdered , forced to flee, arrested or tortured. Thanks to the rediscovery of the classical world, Italy and Europe embarked on the path of modernization, the free market and scientific research. Otherwise, theology and a collectivist society based on a subsistence economy emerged in the Islamic world which closed the horizon of conscience in an “eternal sacred Middle Ages” engaged in an endless conflict against modernity. (HANDLE).
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