Manuscripts Written Quote by Keith J. Devlin

“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated sciences and…

— Dimitri Gutas

“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

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

— Ibn Khaldun

“By the end of the eleventh century,” Edmond said, “the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad.…

— Dan Brown

The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton…

— Amartya Sen

“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

“Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“The Arabic knowledge of cryptography was fully set forth in the section on cryptology in the Subh al-a ‘sha, an enormous, 14-volume encyclopedia”

— David Kahn

“The inscription of King Mar'alqais , found south of Damascus and dated at 328 CE, is usually said to be the first document in Arabic.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The beginnings of Arabic philosophical literature can be described as taking place in two stages. The first occurs from roughly the middle of the…

— Dimitri Gutas

“... 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

“One may guess that the commissioning of this work [a logical textbook and translation into Arabic of Aristotle and Porphyry] must have come from…

— Dimitri Gutas