[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

By the time of the Reconquista, the Islamic world (including in Andalusia) had rejected the possibility of "enlightenment" and rejected many of the principles that made the Renaissance possible. May I suggest Aristotle's Children by Richard E. Rubenstein as an excellent explanation of how the Islamic world was slipping back into the intellectual barbarism that still plagues it today.

[Jacob Kell]

I presume a good deal of that was Al-Ghazal’s doing?