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Islam and West: II. G. E. Von Grunebaum: Toward Relating Islamic Studies to Universal Cultural History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Amin Banani
Affiliation:
Los Angeles, California

Extract

It is too soon to measure the influence of G. E. von Grunebaum on developing trends in Islamic scholarship. But it is not too soon to assess the legacy of his writings. The assessment is bound to suffer from subjectivity and perhaps even border on the presumptuous. And I must confess at the outset that in this paper I have not ruled out a degree of inferential and impressionistic judgment, which in the end may only reflect my own limited vantage.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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