A position between several constellations makes direct comparison possible, and comparison produces the question that drives synthesis, how could all of these things be true; so translation and compilation at a junction are generative work, not secondary work.

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  But if ever-increasing interconnection is an important through-line of history, there is nothing trivial about translation.

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  Muslim intellectuals were the first ones in a position to make direct comparisons among the ideas of the great Chinese, Indian, Greek, and Persian thinkers. They were uniquely situated, therefore, to start asking the question, how could all of these things be true?

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  Let's get everything anyone knows about this subject into a single book so we can compare, was the impulse.

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