02085nam a22002417a 4500 20230628140449.0 230628b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 1842931903 AL English 23 909.098 WALW Tim WallaceMurphy 124990 What Islam Did for Us: Understanding Islams Contribution to Western Civilization London Watkins Publising 2008 260 p. PB 23x15 cm. In these troubled and extremist times, when the religion and culture of Islam are under seemingly perpetual attack, it is salutary to consider how much we, in the Christian West, have in common with, and how much we owe to, the spiritual insights of that great culture. Religious tolerance, respect for learning, the concepts of chivalry and brotherhood - these principles were brought by the Islamic Moors when, in medieval Spain, they acted as "Beacons of Light" in the Dark Ages of European religious arrogance, intolerance and persecution. The Moors gave Europe an architectural and artistic heritage that is still a source of wonder to the modern world. It was in translation from Arabic, not the original Greek, that knowledge of Greek philosophy became prominent in Christian thought. Western mathematics are based on Arabic numerals and calculations, and the first effective medical school in Europe was founded by Jewish doctors who had been trained in Moorish Spain and North Africa. Tim Wallace-Murphy shows how over the last century it was European Western powers who laid the foundations for the chaos that reigns in the Middle East. We need to find a just and equitable solution to these problems and we should begin by acknowledging our common spiritual heritage and the profound debt that Western civilization owes to Islamic culture. Civilization Western--Islamic influences 124991 East and West 124992 Islam 124993 Mind and body therapies 124994 WALLACE MURPHY (Tim) 124995 ddc DB 227698 227698 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2023-06-24 0 909.098 WALW D05968 2023-06-28 00:00:00 2023-06-28 DB Donated by V.T. Rajshekar