Humanist Archives Vol. In any case it would surely be more helpful to treat the western and Islamic traditions as two parallel and interdependent cultures rather than as fundamentally opposed to one another. I fear that the latter presentation is the truer nowadays, but it wasn't always so. The disadvantage is that though most of us no doubt read it, very few can nowadays write it fluently - I haven't even tried. We lost in the Senate.
Bombast comes close, but is too overblown.