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==Reaction and Decline==
==Reaction and Decline==


The twelfth to the fifteenth century was marked by the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism, and a reaction to the humanistic and often secular ideas of the [[Golden Age]] philosophers. After the Abbasid [[Caliph|caliphate]] was overthrown by Mongol conquests in the thirteenth century), Islamic philosophy was fragmented in different centres.  In the fourteenth century, fundamentalist traditionalist views, exemplified by the polemics of [[Ibn Taymiyya]], who called for believers to rid Islam of all forms of innovation, began to dominate Islamic scholarship. The same period also saw the rise of Al-Ghazali's 'Ash'arite theology.<ref name="Oxford Companion">Ted Honderich - [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Companion-Philosophy-Ted-Honderich/dp/0198661320 Oxford Companion to Philosophy] - Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 9780198661320 (article 'Islamic Philosophy')</ref>
The twelfth to the fifteenth century was marked by the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism, and a reaction to the humanistic and often secular ideas of the [[Golden Age]] philosophers. After the Abbasid [[Caliph|caliphate]] was overthrown by Mongol conquests in the thirteenth century), Islamic philosophy was fragmented in different centres.  In the fourteenth century, fundamentalist traditionalist views, exemplified by the polemics of [[Ibn Taymiyya]], who called for believers to rid Islam of all forms of innovation, began to dominate Islamic scholarship. The same period also saw the rise of Al-Ghazali's 'Ash'arite theology.<ref name="Oxford Companion">{{cite web|url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Companion-Philosophy-Ted-Honderich/dp/0198661320|title= Oxford Companion to Philosophy|publisher= Oxford University Press|series= (article 'Islamic Philosophy')|author= Ted Honderich|date= 1995|isbn=9780198661320|archiveurl= |deadurl=no}}</ref>


This had the effect of curtailing the spread of philosophy in Islam in a way that was not encountered to such an extent in the Latin West in the post-medieval period.<ref name="Oxford Companion"></ref>
This had the effect of curtailing the spread of philosophy in Islam in a way that was not encountered to such an extent in the Latin West in the post-medieval period.<ref name="Oxford Companion"></ref>
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