In the mainstream of Western thought, and excluding certain peripheral developments ontology gave way to epistemology, epistemology to logic; and finally by way of reaction logic became confronted with those anti-rational "philosophies" so prevalent today. [10]
Ni katika matumaini kwamba msomaji atashiriki katika maoni Haya ambayo nimejaribu, kwenye matukio mengi, kuacha zaidi ya mwanahistoria mmoja kuelezea kisa hicho hicho. "Wacha wataalamu waifanye kazi hiyo," umekuwa ndio wito wangu katika kutafsiri upya mambo muhimu ya historia ya Uislamu. .