From the review:
“The author cites the great gift Islamic civilization gave by preserving works of the Greeks and Romans during the Dark Ages, while ignoring the relatively moribund society that has existed since then.”
And this reviewer as well as the anonymous author ignore that fact most works of classical Western civilization then existent, were systematically destroyed wherever they were encountered by the test: if it is in the koran, then it is superfluous and must be destroyed; if it is not in the koran then it is anathema and must be destroyed.
What remained after the heyday of the Varsity under Mohammad and his Disciples is what we have today, the known missing works are called “lost” out of ancient political correctness; what remains could even be called a fortuitous accident, not a gift. The “lost works” constituted the bulk of the literary and scientific knowledge of classical Western civilization. Even what we know of classical Christianity is only what survived.
So great was the destruction that perhaps only ten percent of classical literature and knowledge survived the purge, ushering in the Dark Ages. Things which were known and lost were not rediscovered for centuries, like Galileo’s rediscovery of the telescope, eyeglasses, magnifying lenses, large ship building, early computers, astronomical knowledge, and much more.
Islamic “civilization” only remains moribund until the hudna ends and new and more terrible jihads begin. The hudna ended on 911.
Tamara Wilhite’s review was apparently never proof read, or edited and as a result it is difficult to follow:
The The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran” by Christoph Lexenberg is mentioned and she says:
“This book isn’t recommend this work because it is a work of scholarly research to attempt to resolve the confusion of the book by assuming it is mistranslated.”
Clearly she has a problem here, failing to note that the passages she dislikes by Lexenburg were written in Old Syriac not Arabic and fails to make the distinction relying on Warraq’s Arabic instead. Also not mentioned is the koran is a complied document from scrolls, tapestries, and wall paintings some 200 years after Mohammad. Naturally there is confusion as Old Syriac is very similar to Arabic but as different as modern English is from Old English (Old: swá gebléod = Modern: as different).
Thanks for his very helpful explanation of the systematic eradication of non-Islamic civilizations and their cultural artifacts, by Islam. I’m bookmarking it.
Do you have a reference for classical civilization having telescopes?