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 | | As President 'Ilija Izetbegovic has written in his book Islam Between East and West, Roger Bacon "set the entire structure of English philosophical thought on two separate foundations": inward experience, which leads to spiritual insight, and observation and experimentation, which leads to true science. |
 | | President Izetbegovic continues that there is "another important fact about Roger Bacon which has never been sufficiently studied and recognised: the father of English philosophy and science was really a student of Arabic"; indeed, he lectured at Oxford in Arab clothes. |
 | | He was strongly influenced by Islamic thinkers, especially by Ibn Sina, and to this influence can be attributed the character of Bacon's thought and, through him, the origin of the middle way as the single most important guiding principle in English life, encompassing many dimensions, political, social, moral, and spiritual. |
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