The Europeans
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al-Afranj · the Franks · الافرنج · al-Ifranj · the Europeans · الأفرنج
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)
The only difference between the Europeans and ourselves would be, that though some of their governments hardly allow of this silent social compact, none acknowledge the sovereignty of the people;
in the texts
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Europeans, both as the third era of the commentator's periodisation of philosophy and as those who call Ibn Sina Avicenne and translated the works of these thinkers.
So I chose to comment upon it with a commentary that accords with the manner of the age, setting before it an ample introduction which sets out the standing of spirit and matter philosophically in the three eras — the Greek era, then the Arab-Islamic, then the European — and mentioning a summary of modern psychology (*al-bisikūlūjiyā*) (1), so that it may be sufficient to the purpose;
— 980–1036 — whom the Europeans call (Avicenne), is Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā al-Bukhārī,
The most important views of the Europeans on life are three great views.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
European peoples and governments invoked as a contrastive example regarding tacit social compacts and denial of popular sovereignty.
The only difference between the Europeans and ourselves would be, that though some of their governments hardly allow of this silent social compact, none acknowledge the sovereignty of the people;