The American Association for the Advancement of Science has apparently published a long piece claiming the Christian West got many, many philosophical goodies from Muslim philosophers. This is not quite the case, as
Jonathan David Carson notes.
The historian Christopher Dawson did perceive some Averroism in the thought of certain Italian scientists, even Leonardo da Vinci, as I recall. It's recorded somewhere in my dead tree notebooks. However, Averroism itself, like the Straussian school, deprecates religious belief in favor of purely philosophical life and inquiry.
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