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Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists

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This book was very insightful in terms of where modern civilaztion generated it's ideas and inventions from. If not for Muslims? we probably would have been a century or two behind time, Muslims influenced the modern era more than one might imagine. Though there will be some people out there who'll deny this as a fact? reasonable men and women who hold no prejudice and contempt towards Islam would come to accept this fact to be true, as I have after extensively researching this topic.

Those who are interested in reading this book? I gurantee you will not be dissapointed.

This is a fantastic introduction to ways in which medieval Islamic science and learning influenced European thought. Recommended to casual readers and students of Islamic History alike. Will satisfy readers seeking a positive appreciation of Islamic heritage.

Hoping to "re-frame" the "very premises of the emerging 'clash of civilizations'" might be a tall order. There is more than enough prejudice against and within the muslim world to make that quite difficult.
At the very least however, this excellent book throws a lot of light on Islam's golden age as an integral part of Western civilisation. Although it has been done before (Levi-Provençal, Hunke among others), the demonstration that many aspects of our day-to-day lives trace their origin to arab-muslim initiatives is, in Morgan's book, quite convincing.

This book is an ideal base reading for anyone interested in knowing about the scientific/philosophical contributions of the Muslim empire which included not just the Muslim scientist but scientist from other faiths also more importantly Jewish. Jews for once were able to find a safe haven under Muslim rulers where they could carry on their research without any trepidation for the most part. Michael Morgan has taken his readers on a whirlwind tour of medieval discoveries/inventions in a chronological order, however for anyone interested in knowing more about the various scientist/scholars of this era or their discoveries they would need to find a more detailed book.

very glad to see someone from the West say good things about the inventions by Muslims and Arabs during early centuries...
great read that should change the mind of many superemacists!