St. Thomas Aquinas and Muslim Thought Classical PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 2016

PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 2016

68 After Óudaybiyah

you can reflect on what you’ve read

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Through the medium of his thoughtful writing and soul-transforming poetry

St. Thomas Aquinas and Muslim Thought Classical PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 2016St. Thomas Aquinas, the most known medieval philosophical theologian; the stal wart of scholasticism; the Doctor of Church; and one of the most influential figures in West ern Christianity, was greatly influenced by Muslim synthetic thought. The gulf between reason and revelation, faith and philosophy or Jesus and Aristotle were wider in Christianity than in Islam. Aquinas bridged that gap with the help of Mus lim philosophical thought. This work