THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL GLOBALISM IN THE MEDIEVAL EURO-ASIA

SADIK TÜRKER

ABSTRACT

I classify the meanings of the term globalism into economic, political, and intellectual
dimensions. In this paper I will focus on undertaking the intellectual meaning of the
term. In order to examine the third meaning, I should make a comparative analysis
of the specific periods of medieval Islamic and European cultures. Throughout my
presentation, this meaning appears to be more fundamental to others because of its
natural and historical antecedence. Finally, I will propose the concept of the intellectual
globalism that has predisposed the globalist developments in our contemporary world. It
is an extending idea over many cultures. Within this new concept, I attempt at defining
the sub-concepts of extension that basically depend on the paradigmatic conversion.