The thing with " Mohammedanism " is that the word was invented by non-Muslims, so even though there may have been no intent to offend, and even though it seems quite reasonable and useful to outsiders when they juxtapose it with words like Buddhism, Christianity, Calvinism etc, Muslims are within their rights in asking that it not be used, just as African-Americans are within their rights to do the same with " negro " and other words now considered pejorative in meaning, if not necessarily in intent .-- talk ) 00 : 03, 9 March 2008 ( UTC)
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German historians were especially ardent in their praise of Charles Martel; Schlegel speaks of this " mighty victory ", and tells how " the arm of Charles Martel saved and delivered the Christian nations of the West from the deadly grasp of all-destroying Islam . " Creasy quotes Leopold von Ranke's opinion that this period was " one of the most important epochs in the history of the world, the commencement of the eighth century, when on the one side Mohammedanism threatened to overspread Italy and Gaul, and on the other the ancient idolatry of Saxony and Friesland once more forced its way across the Rhine.
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In his Lectures on Aesthetics, Hegel wrote ( on the Arts translated by Henry Paolucci, 2001, p . 155 157 ) : Pantheistic poetry has had, it must be said, a higher and freer development in the Islamic world, especially among the Persians . . . The full flowering of Persian poetry comes at the height of its complete transformation in speech and national character, through Mohammedanism . . . In later times, poetry of this order [ Ferdowsi's epic poetry ] had a sequel in love epics of extraordinary tenderness and sweetness; but there followed also a turn toward the didactic, where, with a rich experience of life, the far-traveled Saadi was master before it submerged itself in the depths of the pantheistic mysticism taught and recommended in the extraordinary tales and legendary narrations of the great Jalal-ed-Din Rumi.
