On Islam and comparative intellectual history

Cook, M. (2007)

Article / Letter to editor

Every culture has to balance innovation and conservation. Most innovations are bad because they are maladaptive, but since a few of them turn out well, absence of innovation in a culture is also maladaptive. The question is where the balance is to be struck, and in the Islamic case the answer was well toward the conservative end of the spectrum.

• History
• Islam

• All authors: Cook, M.
• Date: 2007
• Publisher: IIAS, Leiden