[lbo-talk] Middle Eastern atheist tradition?

[Victor]

You might try reading Ibn Rushd
Oudeyis
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Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:29
Subject: [lbo-talk] Middle Eastern atheist tradition?


>I recently came across this quote:
> 
> "The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men
> without religion, and religious men without
> intelligence."
> 
> [Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri (973-1057; Syrian poet)]
> 
> 
> And it made me wonder if anyone knows anything about a
> Middle eastern atheist tradition that predates Western
> colonial influence? Any books, URLs, etc.,
> appreciated.
> 
> -B.
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