Islam Creator of the Modern Age
Preface
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Thus began a new era of freedom to investigate
nature. The slow, thousand-year process of
maturation finally culminated (towards the end at
an ever-accelerating pace) in modern science and
technology. Modern science is wholly the gift of the
Islamic revolution – directly in its initial stages, and
indirectly in its later stages.
This truth has been generally acknowledged in one
way or another. A number of books which have
come out in modern times, with titles like
The
Scientific Achievement of the Arabs,
or
The Muslim
Contribution to Civilization,
testify to its general
acceptance.
Scholars are in agreement that modern industrial
progress owes its existence to Arabo-Muslim
influences. A. Humboldt writes: “It is the Arabs
who should be regarded as the real founders of
physics.”
1
Philip Hitti writes in his book,
History of the Arabs
(1970): “No people in the Middle Ages contributed
to human progress so much as did the Arabians and
the Arabic-speaking peoples.”
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