What is the point of this article? At one time Islamic culture led the world in many respects. That was a heck of a long time ago, and totally irrelevent to anything happening today, where they seem to produce and house a disproportionate share of the worlds barbarity.
At one time Islamic culture led the world in many respects. Our present method of counting evolved from Hindu-Arab roots. The Arabs are generally given credit for inventing the "zero".
I think they also invented al-zebra, much to the displeasure of high school freshmen the world over.
But that's been a long, long time ago.