چكيده لاتين :
There were fundamental differences In political
philosophy and culture between Islamic and westemChristian
or European civilization in the period up to c.
1500, notably concerning the nature of the political
community, of religious law and of the mode of political
discourse. These differences are mainly rooted in social
rationality, public opinion, and notable works by
philosophers, lawyers, and theologians. An important point
in that era was that Europe was open to Greco-Roman
influences and thus developed, as Islam did not, a notion of
the legitimate secular state. Finally, the writer comes to the
conclusion that through the passage of time the gap between
Islam and the Christian West increased and, instead of
converging toward each other in the course of modernity,
each culture went its own way and distanced from the other.
