Book Quote by Jim Al-Khalili

“Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the…

— Jim Al-Khalili

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

“One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout its golden…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“Language was critically important to the religious transition. The rise of Islam meant not just the eclipse of Christianity but the near annihilation of…

— Philip Jenkins

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

— Martin Amis

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs,…

— Philip Khuri Hitti

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

— Larry Elder

“The tradition of Islamic science of course gradually weakened but it did not decay as rapidly as some people have claimed in the West.…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“The decadence which did occur in the Islamic world belongs to a much later period of Islamic history than is usually claimed. This fact…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“This translation movement, during the course of which almost all non-literary and non-historical secular Greek works on science and philosophy were translated upon demand…

— Dimitri Gutas

“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of getting on…

— Philip Jenkins