Renan's thesis that Islam was hostile to science and philosophy

أطروحة عداء الإسلام للعلم والفلسفة عند رينان

A thesis that Ghallab reports from Ernest Renan in his book on Islam and science: that Islam restrained freedom of thought and science, and that the Arabs did not know reasoning until after translation ^{1 2}. Ghallab notes that it spread in European circles and was published in Egypt without reply, and he returns in this book to refute it ². In his rebuttal he cites Carra de Vaux's view of the Qur'an as a book presenting philosophical questions in the form of inspiration ^{2 3}, and he counts Renan among the writers who fell into grave errors about Islam ⁴. This is Renan's thesis as Ghallab presents it, not a verdict of the museum.