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“Following the ascendancy of the conservative Sunni Caliph al-Mutawakkil, whom Syed Ameer Ali describes as a 'cruel drunken sot in league with the qazis and mullahs,' the physical extermination of Mu'tazilites, together with Shias, began in earnest. They were removed from all governmental positions, accused of heresy, subjected to torture, and summarily executed. Scholars and scientists, most of whom subscribed to rationalist beliefs, fled Baghdad for other parts of the Islamic world. Thus ended the most serious attempt to combine reason with revelation in Islam. Apart from various isolated efforts by individua119th century Muslim reformers, the separation between the religious and secular has been complete in Islam ever since.”

Muslim Rationalism Mullahs Conservativism

Book:Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

Source: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

“It is imperative to realize that Muslim culture is inextricably wedded to the past”

Muslim Retrogressive Thinking

Book:Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

Source: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

“Fire causes burning, lightning causes thunder, winds cause waves, and gravity causes bodies to fall. Such connections between an effect and its cause form the cornerstone of scientific thinking, both modern and classical. But this notion of causality is one which is specifically rejected by Asharite doctrine, and the most articulate and effective opponent of physical causality was AI-Ghazzali”

Muslim Al Ghazali Asharite

Book:Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

Source: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

“The Hanbalite Ibn Taymiya understood Ilm (knowledge) as referring to that knowledge which derives from the Prophet. Everything else he regarded either as useless or no science at all, even though it might be called by that name.”

Science Muslim Ibn Taymiyyah

Book:Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality

Source: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality