The Prophet Muhammad’s immigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE marks the beginning of a decisive era in the history of mankind. Within a few decades, the rising Muslim nation managed to march from Arabia to almost every corner of the known world at the time. The Arabs, who had virtually no contribution to human civilization for centuries before the advent of Islam (c. 609 CE), successfully embarked on an unprecedented journey that transformed the entire world in almost all fields. For centuries to come, the language of knowledge and science was no other than Arabic. No work of any value was produced in any other language. Centers for learning and enlightenment spread across the Islamic empire promoting both Islam and scholarship in general. The scholarly contribution of the Islamic empire was indeed unparalleled in terms of content, depth, value and relevance for the advancement of human civilization.

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