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How Islam influenced West-Prince Charles -Oxford speech
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 02:54 AM

The uneducated morons here dont have any knowledge of either west or east thats why rubbishing about Islam and science and West.

Here is excerpts from the speech of prince charles which he gave on oxford

...But Islamic Spain was much more than a mere larder where Hellenistic knowledge was kept for later consumption by the emerging modern Western world. Not only did Muslim Spain gather and preserve the intellectual content of ancient Greek and Roman civilisation, it also interpreted and expanded upon that civilisation, and made a vital contribution of its own in so many fields of human endeavour - in science, astronomy, mathematics, algebra (itself an Arabic word), law, history, medicine, pharmacology, optics, agriculture, architecture, theology...

princeofwales.gov.uk/speechesandarticles/a_speech_by_hrh_the_prince_of_wales_titled_islam_and_the_wes_4258 73846.html

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