As announced earlier this year the Britsh University of Exeter is starting up a course in 'Magic and Occult Sciences' and why, well the penultimate statement in the course summary explains it quite clearly...
https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/magic/202...cult-sciences/
Given the role the Islamic world played in preserving and explanding upon the Greco-Roman discoveries that ultimately led to the scientific revolution I find this kind of sentiment profoundly disturbing.
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By housing this program in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, we place the Arabo-Islamic cultural heritage back where it belongs in the centre of these studies and in the history of the “West.” Decolonisation, the exploration of alternative epistemologies, feminism, and anti-racism are at the core of this programme. |
https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/magic/202...cult-sciences/
Given the role the Islamic world played in preserving and explanding upon the Greco-Roman discoveries that ultimately led to the scientific revolution I find this kind of sentiment profoundly disturbing.
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