He was arraigned as a dabbler in devilish and satanic alchemy...

He was arraigned as a dabbler in devilish and satanic alchemy: and the mob was incited to yell for this sorcerer's hand to be cut off and this Muslim' (!) to be exiled." Nowadays European and American historians and scholars all recognise and relate the fundamental contributions made by Islam to all modern advances in science, mathematics, technology, philosophy, in many ways of which this brief chapter has only been able to touch the fringe.

Cultural Revolution No better evidence of the passion of Islam for the spread of erudition, from its very inception, can be given than the words of the Prophet himself who said, after the…