DOC The Last of the Lascars: Yemeni Muslims in Britain 1836-2012 by Mohammed Siddique Seddon in History

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Long before the European Renaissance; while the Western world was languishing in what was once called the “Dark Ages;” the Arab world was ablaze with the knowledge; invention; and creativity of its Golden Age. Through the astrologers; physicians; philosophers; mathematicians; and alchemists of the Muslim world; this knowledge was carried from Samarkand and Baghdad to Cordoba and beyond; influencing Western thinkers from Thomas Aquinas to Copernicus and helping to inspire the cultural phenomenon of the Renaissance. John Freely’s spellbinding story is set against a background of the melting pot of the cultures involved and concludes with the decline of Islam’s Golden Age; which led the West to forget the debt it owed to the Muslim world and the influence of medieval Islamic civilization in forging the beginnings of modern science.