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Western Influence Of Islamic Civilization On The West

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Islamic civilization on Western land allowed a different way of living and thinking much superior to the one existing in the rest of Europe. Until around the end of the eleventh century, the Western views of Islam and its cultural and military triumphant civilizations were fostered by ignorance and hatred toward Islam and the Muslims. The highest intellectual achievements of the West during the Crusades were from imitation of Islamic science and learning. Universities were found in the West that were patterned on the Muslim universities in that they pursue new knowledge made available by translations of the works in Arabic and Greek classics. Arabo-Islamic culture, knowledge, scholarship, and science fed the Western world’s development for

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