Ithaca College

Dr. Amanullah De Sondy, assistant professor of world religions, Department of Philosophy and Religion, has discussed at a meeting in Glasgow his second book topic on a investigation and discussion to present an Islamic Enlightenment through a comparison of the Scottish Enlightenment with South Asian Islam with Professor Alexander Broadie, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow in Scotland – the same Chair held by Adam Smith.  Professor Broadie welcomed the thoughts and ideas of Dr. De Sondy and declared full support for such an endeavour. 

Professor Broadie is the author of seventeen books on topics ranging from logic and logicians in pre-reformation Scotland, medieval logic, rhetoric, Scottish philosophy and is the expert on Scottish Enlightenment studies.  His 2009 publication, ‘A History of Scottish Philosophy’ won the Saltire Society’s Scottish History Book of the Year Award and was presented by Michael Russell MSP, the Scottish Minister for Culture, at an event held at the National Library of Scotland.