Comparative Religious Analysis in the Middle Ages

The islamic world harboured some of the greatest minds of the age. A lot of european wisdom of the time was actually derived from works produced by theIslamic world in the middle ages. It's one of those subject areas where you can easily be tempted into forming inaccurate generalizations on the basis of a small set of evidence. You know, it seems like scholars who engage in comparative religious analysis to day are increasingly conscious of the need to be frugal and tentative with generalizations about the milarities and differences between entire religions or communities that practise them.