Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“…Since the Muslim world is still embedded in the relatively undifferentiated embrace of a societal setting guided and integrated by the Muslim faith it did not succeed  as yet to transcend the inherent limitations entailed in a typical empire in the classical sense of the word. …”
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Articulation of Islam: President Joko Widodo’s Foreign Policy 2014-2019 by Achmad Ubaedillah, Muhammad Ali, Bimo Arfino

“…The Islamic identity can be approved by analytical descriptive explanation as it considered as the common measurement in international relation discipline, which is the platform and foreign policy orientation of Jokowi, in addition to his consistent diplomacy for Muslim world like Saudi Arabia-Iran conflict, Rohingya crisis, Afghanistan, and the existing two President Special Envoys for Middle East and OIC and for Cultural Cooperation and Interfaith Dialogues. …”
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La mousson, pluie des agriculteurs et vent des marins by Françoise Aubaile-Sallenave

“…But monsoon obliges the travelers to accomodate to its very particular annual calendars : it directs the boats alternatively from west to east and from east to west.The cultural frame of the paper focalizes the arabo-muslim world of the 8th-16th, 18th centuries, with glimpses on the other cultures (in term of boats, travels, travelers, products).We shall evocate the action of the monsoon on the land and the adaptation of the small farmers to those rains, but also the good and bad consequences of those rains for the societies.We also shall evocate the steps of the trade (chinese, indian, arabic, persian, then portuguese, english and french), some great oriental and occidental travelers, their aims.For the Europeans in the Indian Ocean, that monsoon route has been first the alternative to the inside asiatic route, the silk route. …”
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The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…During the Golden Age of Islam the Muslim world was clearly more advanced than its Christian counterpart with regard to the magnificent hospitals which were built in various countries, institutions which eventually became the true forerunners of the modern teaching hospital. …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…This nostalgia of what could have happened, being dislocated in the culture of the Muslim worlds, also leads to reconceive the claims of a universalism which would not take into account as a prerequisite a principle of hospitality.…”
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