Ahhh, rationalism, logical empiricism, etc., yes definitely. However, here's the problem with Islam in general, historically, with respect to Western ideas from Bernard Lewis in his book, The Arabs In History,p. 139:
The acceptance of the Greek heritage by Islam gave rise to a struggle between the scientific rationalist tendency of the new learning on the one hand, and the atomistic and intuituve quality of Islamic thought on the other. During the period of struggle Muslims of both schools created a rich and varied culture, much of which is of permanent importance in the history of mankind. The struggle ended in the victory of the more purely Islamic point of view. Islam, a religiously conditioned society, rejected values that challenged its fundamental postulates, while accepting their results, and even developing them by experiment and observation. Ismailism - the revolution marquee of Islam - might have ushered in a full acceptance of Hellenistic values, heralding a humanist renaissance of the Western type, overcoming the resistance of the Quaran by the device of esoteric interpretation, of the Shari'a by the unbounded discretion of the infallible Imam. But the forces supporting the Ismaili revolution were not strong enough, and it failed in the very moment of its greatest success.: