"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abstract

1.  The Rise of Islam

2.  The Golden Age of Islam

3.  The Path of Reason

4.  The Mystic Tide

5.  Epilogue

 

NB: An edited excerpt from this essay was published as The Station of Light in Nimble Spirit Review, Nov 2004.