THE UNIVERSAL MESSAGE OF ISLAM AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION

Abstract

1 General Introduction Beyond a shadow of doubt, the Arab-Islamic civilization has played a leading role, a major task, a pioneer position in building a global universal scientific and well admirable methodical renaissance. Arab and Muslim scientists, scholars and learned men transmitted the Greco-Roman and Medo-Persian scientific heritage and all what preceded them in history, from every colour, from every race, from every corner in the world digging up the earth and uncovering the human heritage. Brushing it with the Islamic paint, giving it an overall clothing made up in the Arabic language, the language which was the communication medium of science, culture, trade and commerce. It was a global lingua franca in all the aspects of the word. The Arab and Muslim scholars not only had had a manifest, palpable, evident impact, but they were greatly magnificent in reshaping the European Renaissance as well. The nature of Arab and Islamic culture, was imbedded and very often influential in many of the scientific, realistic, intellectual and cultural fields, such as the innovation brought in the numerical co-ordinations, the zero numbering system, the decimal system, chemistry, agronomy and irrigation, medicine and astrology.