Attitude of Enlightenment thinkers to The Islamic Religion

Abstract

However, the Western standpoint on Islam was divergent. Some thinkers were against Islam and looked at it contemptuously as a religion of fairy-tales while others were advocates of the preaching of this religion. Therefore, the aim of this research is to put the limelight under the most incumbent period in the history of religious criticism, the Enlightenment Age, by incorporating the ideas of movers and shakers in the Enlightenment era who have studied closely Islam amid the Western arguments about this religion. That being the case, it sounds imperative to inquire about the attitude of Enlightenment thinkers towards the religion of Islam. As for the major findings in this research, It was found that their arguments are divergent