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DetlefK

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Mon Feb 29, 2016, 08:51 AM Feb 2016

Did Islam have some kind of Renaissance-era? [View all]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

The european Middle-Ages were defined by a very religious and very fundamentalist mindset.

The Renaissance was a cultural re-orientation away from contemporary religion and towards the "wisdom and glory" of the past.

The Renaissance was very fruitful for art as contemporary christian elements were mixed with pre-christian and non-christian elements: mythological and religious concepts from Ancient Europe and Ancient Middle-East.



My question:
Was/is there a similar cultural era where muslim artists/thinkers/scholars combined islamic and non-islamic religious ideas?

(The Al-Nahda seems more like a political Renaissance to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nahda )
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