| In his final address
to the non-Muslim participants of the New Mexico educational
retreat, Abdal Hakim looks at the other aspects of the long-standing
historical interaction of the three Abrahamic faiths, such as
the transmission of science, technology, and philosophical ideas
from the Islamic world to the Western world. Islam in the middle
ages was a very successful commercial and material civilization
and this fact combined with the Muslim's strategic geographic
positions allowed for such a profound influence and contribution.
The speaker looks at the economic/cultural/scientific contributions
in the areas of maritine navigation and exploration, agriculture,
music, poetry, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, and
much more. (Recorded at the Dar al Islam
Teachers' Institute seminar). |
