[The_Reader_David]

Thank you, my Latin brother, for making the point I would have made. The atheistic French philosophes are also the ones who invented the name "Byzantine Empire" for the Roman Empire after the retirement of the last Western Augustus in 476. The name, of course, is a lie: read contemporary histories like the Alexiad and the citizens knew they still lived in the Roman Empire. Even the Turks who finally destroyed the Empire knew this: the subjugated people were the Rum Millet, the Patriarchate of Constantinople is called in Turkish "Rum Patrikhi" (Rum = Roman).

[Dumb_Ox]

Hasn't the western Romantic movement always exhibited favor towards Islam? Its simplified creed initially appears similar to that of the Deists, and its fusion of religion and state is arguably mirrored in Rousseau. I have heard that even the Romantic nazis were attracted to the creed.