"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a
guide and pillar of stability for many of our
people..." HILLARY RODMAN CLINTON, Los Angeles Times,
May 31, 1996, p.3
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Already more than a billion-people strong, Islam is
the world’s fastest-growing religion. ABCNEWS,
Abcnews.com
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"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the
country." NEWSDAY, March 7, 1989, p.4
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"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United
States..." NEW YORK TIMES, Feb 21, 1989, p.1
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Moslems are the world's fastest-growing group..." USA
TODAY, The population referance bureau, Feb. 17, 1989,
p.4A
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"Muhammed is the most successful of all Prophets and
religious personalities. " Encyclopedia Britannica
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"There are more Muslims in North America then Jews
Now." Dan Rathers, ABCNEWS
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"Islam is the fastest growing religion in North
America." TIMES MAGAZINE
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"Islam continues to grow in America, and no one can
doubt that!" CNN, December 15, 1995
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"The religion of Islam is growing faster than any
other religion in the world." MIKE WALLACE, 60 MINUTES
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"Five to 6 million strong, Muslims in America already
outnumber Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Mormons,
and they are more numerous than Quakers, Unitarians,
Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites, Jehovah's
Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, combined. Many
demographers say Islam has overtaken Judaism as the
country's second-most commonly practiced religion;
others say it is in the passing lane." JOHAN BLANK,
USNEWS (7/20/98)
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"In fact, religion experts say Islam is the
second-largest religion in the United States... Islam
has 5 million to 6 million members, followed by
Judaism, with approximately 4.5 million..... And Islam
is believed to be fastest-growing religion in the
country, with half its expansion coming from new
immigrants and the other half from conversions." By
ELSA C. ARNETT Knight-Ridder News Service
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Professor Keith Moore, one of the world’s prominent
scientists of anatomy and embryology. University of
Toronto, Canada It has been a great pleasure for me to
help clarify statements in the Qur’aan about human
development. It is clear to me that these statements
must have come to Muhammad from God, or 'Allah',
because almost all of this knowledge was not
discovered until many centuries later. This proves to
me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of Allah.
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"But Islam has a still further service to render to
the cause of humanity. It stands after all nearer to
the real East than Europe does, and it possesses a
magnificent tradition of inter-racial understanding
and cooperation. No other society has such a record
of success uniting in an equality of status, of
opportunity, and of endeavours so many and so various
races of mankind . . . Islam has still the power to
reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race
and tradition. If ever the opposition of the great
societies of East and West is to be replaced by
cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an
indispensable condition. In its hands lies very
largely the solution of the problem with which Europe
is faced in its relation with East. If they unite,
the hope of a peaceful issue is immeasurably
enhanced. But if Europe, by rejecting the cooperation
of Islam, throws it into the arms of its rivals, the
issue can only be disastrous for both." --H.A.R.
Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM, London, 1932, p. 379.
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"It (Islam) replaced monkishness by manliness. It
gives hope to the slave, brotherhood to mankind, and
recognition of the fundamental facts of human nature."
--Canon Taylor, Paper read before the Church Congress
at Walverhamton, Oct. 7, 1887; Quoted by Arnoud in THE
PREACHING OF ISLAM, pp. 71-72.
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The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one
spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all
standards by which human greatness may be measured, we
may well ask, is there any man greater than he? "
Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11
pp. 276-2727
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"If a man like Muhammed were to assume the
dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in
solving its problems that would bring it the much
needed peace and happiness." George Bernard Shaw
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"How, for instance, can any other appeal stand against
that of the Moslem who, in approaching the pagan, says
to him, however obscure or degraded he may be 'Embrace
the faith, and you are at once equal and a brother.'
Islam knows no color line." (S. S. Leeder, VEILED
MYSTERIES OF EGYPT)
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Professor William W. Hay is one of the best known
marine scientists in the United States. satellite
photography and emote-sensing techniques. Professor
Hay replied: I find it very interesting that this sort
of information is in the ancient scripture of the
Holy Qur’aan, and I have no way of knowing where they
would come from, but I think it is extremely
interesting that they are there and that this work is
going on to discover it, the meaning of some of the
passages. Professor Hay: Well, I would think it must
be the divine being!
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Professor Yushudi Kusan: Director of the Tokyo
Observatory, I can say, I am very mush impressed by
finding true astronomical facts in the Qur’aan.
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Professor Alfred Kroner who is one of the world’s most
famous geologists
"Thinking about many of these questions and thinking
where Muhammad came from, he was after all a bedouin.
I think it is almost impossible that he could have
known about things like the common origin of the
universe, because scientists have only found out
within the last few years with very complicated and
advanced technological methods that this is the case.
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Dr. T.V.N. Persaud is a Professor of Anatomy and Head
of the Department of Anatomy, and a professor of
Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author or
editor of 25 books, and has published over 181
scientific papers. In 1991, he received the most
distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy
in Canada. "It seems to me that Muhammad was a very
ordinary man.. He could not read or write. In fact, he
was illiterate. We are talking about 1400 years ago.
You have someone who was illiterate making profound
pronouncement and statements and are amazingly
accurate about scientific nature. I personally cannot
see how this could be mere chance. There are too many
accuracy’s and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty
in my mind in concerning that this is a divine
inspiration or revelation which led him to these
statements."
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Joe Leigh Simpson, Professor of Obstetrics and
Gynecology at the North Western University in Chicago
in the United States of America. Professor Simpson
said: It follows, I think, that not only is there no
conflict between genetics and religion, but in fact
religion can guide science by adding revelation to
some traditional scientific approaches. That there
exists statements in the Qur’aan shown by science to
be valid, which supports knowledge in the Qur’aan
having been derived from Allah.
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Professor Palmer a scientist from the U.S.
We need research into the history of early Middle
Eastern oral traditions to know whether in fact such
historical events have been reported. If there is no
such record, it strengthens the belief that Allah
transmitted through Muhammad bits of his knowledge
that we have only discovered for ourselves in recent
times. We look forward to a continuing dialogue on the
topic of science in the Qur’aan in the context of
geology. Thank you very much.
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Professor Tagata Tagasone, formerly Head of the
Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the University
of Shiang Mai in Thailand. He is now the Dean of the
College of the Medicine at the University. From my
studies and from what I have learned throughout this
conference, I believe that everything that has been
recorded in the Qur’aan 1400 years ago must be the
truth, that can be proved by the scientific means.
Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor
write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this
truth which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by
the One Who is an eligible Creator. This Creator must
be Allah, or Allah. Therefore, I think this is the
time to say ‘Laa ilaaha illallah’, that there is no
Allah to worship except Allah, ‘Muhammad Rasool
Allah’, Muhammad is messenger of Allah...
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Professor Armstrong, Scientist works at NASA, I am
impressed that how remarkably some of the ancient
writings seem to correspond to modern and recent
Astronomy. There may well have to be something beyond
what we understand as ordinary human experience to
account for the writings that we have seen.
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Professor Dorja Rao, It is difficult to imagine that
this type of knowledge was existing at that time,
around 1400 years back. May be some of the things they
have simple idea about, but do describe those things
in great detail is very difficult. So, this is
definitely not a simple human knowledge.
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"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's
most influential persons may surprise some readers and
may be questioned by others, but he was the only man
in history who was supremely successful on both the
religious and secular level." --Michael H. Hart, THE
100: A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN
HISTORY, New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc.,
1978, p. 33.
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"No other society has such a record of success in
uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity and
endeavour so many and so varied races of mankind. The
great Muslim communities of Africa, India and
Indonesia, perhaps also the small community in Japan,
show that Islam has still the power to reconcile
apparently irreconcilable elements of race and
tradition. If ever the opposition of the great
societies of the East and west is to be replaced by
cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an
indispensable condition." (H.A.R. Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM,
p. 379)
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The nation's claim to be a Christian country is about
to meet its first challenge: the number of practising
Muslims is set to overtake Anglican Christians....
There has also been a number of high-profile
conversions to Islam from Christianity. These include
Mike Tyson, the former world champion boxer; Chris
Eubank, the British middleweight boxing champion, who
has changed his name to Hamdan; and Cat Stevens, the
pop musician, who calls himself Yousef Islam....
Prince Charles courted controversy earlier this year
when he reaffirmed his claim that when he succeeds the
throne, he does not wish to be the defender of only
the Christian faith. Rajeev Syal and Christopher
Morgan Sunday Times (London, U.K.)
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"I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my
opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be
called the saviour of humanity. " George Bernard
Shaw in "The Genuine Islam"
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"Muhammad, the inspired man who founded Islam, was
born about A.D. 570 into an Arabian tribe that
worshipped idols. Orphaned at birth, he was always
particularly solicitous of the poor and needy, the
widow and the orphan, the slave and the downtrodden.
At twenty, he was already a successful businessman,
and soon became director of camel caravans for a
wealthy widow. When he reached twenty-five, his
employer, recognizing his merit, proposed marriage.
Even though she was fifteen years older, he married
her, and as long as she lived, remained a devoted
husband. "Like almost every major prophet before him,
Muhammad fought shy of serving as the transmitter of
God's word, sensing his own inadequacy. But the angel
commanded 'Read.' So far as we know, Muhammad was
unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those
inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large
segment of the earth: 'There is one God.' "In all
things Muhammad was profoundly practical. When his
beloved son Ibrahim died, an eclipse occurred, and
rumours of God's personal condolence quickly arose.
Whereupon Muhammad is said to have announced, 'An
eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish to
attribute such things to the death or birth of a human
being. "At Muhammad's own death an attempt was made
to deify him, but the man who was to become his
administrative successor killed the hysteria with one
of the noblest speeches in religious history: 'If
there are any among you who worshipped Muhammad, he is
dead. But if it is God you worshipped, He lives
forever." --James A. Michener, "Islam: The
Misunderstood Religion," in READER'S DIGEST (American
edition), May 1955, pp. 68-70.
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"In little more than a year he was actually the
spiritual, nominal and temporal rule of Medina, with
his hands on the lever that was to shake the world."
John Austin, "Muhammad the Prophet of Allah," in T.P.
's and Cassel's Weekly for 24th September 1927.
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"Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of
the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When
I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer,
kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I
felt the only answer for me was the Qur'an and God had
sent it to me." Cat Stevens (YusufIslam), former
British pop star.
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"Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569,
was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men
exercised the greatest influence upon the human race .
. . Mohammed . . . " John William Draper, M.D.,
L.L.D., A History of the Intellectual Development of
Europe, London 1875, Vol.1, pp.329-330
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"Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence
was felt and never forgotten by those around him."
Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta
1935, p. l 22.
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"People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first
sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand,
and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are
leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense.
Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone.
Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed,
who combined all three functions. To a lesser degree,
Moses did the same." Professor Jules Masserman
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Ahmed Versi, editor of the weekly Muslim News, said
the growth of Islam has been constant: "The younger
generation of Muslims that I have encountered is
becoming more aware of its Muslim identity and is
therefore practising its faith with vigour."
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"The extinction of race consciousness as between
Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of
Islam and in the contemporary world there is, as it
happens, a crying need for the propagation of this
Islamic virtue..." (A.J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION ON
TRIAL, New York, p. 205)
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"Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals
of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those
dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical
ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the
whole world." --Lectures on "The Ideals of Islam;"
see SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF SAROJINI NAIDU, Madras,
1918, p. 167.
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"History makes it clear however, that the legend of
fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and
forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered
races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths
that historians have ever repeated." --De Lacy
O'Leary, ISLAM AT THE CROSSROADS, London, 1923, p. 8.
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"The Muslim community is much more aware of its
religion and the use that religion plays within its
community." Dr Peter Brierley, executive director of
the Christian Research Association, a London-based
charity
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"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high
estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is
the only religion which appears to me to possess that
assimilating capacity to the changing phase of
existence which can make itself appeal to every age.
I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my
opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be
called the Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a
man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the
modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems
in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and
happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of
Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of
tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the
Europe of today." --G.B. Shaw, THE GENUINE ISLAM,
Vol. 1, No. 81936.
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"A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40
percent are African-American," Charles Bierbauer,
from the Senior Washington Correspondent
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"The extinction of race consciousness as between
Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of
Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it
happens, a crying need for the propagation of this
Islamic virtue." --A.J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION ON
TRIAL, New York, 1948, p. 205.
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"The rise of Islam is perhaps the most amazing event
in human history. Springing from a land and a people
like previously negligible, Islam spread within a
century over half the earth, shattering great empires,
overthrowing long established religions, remoulding
the souls of races, and building up a whole new world
- world of Islam.
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"The closer we examine this development the more
extraordinary does it appear. The other great
religions won their way slowly, by painful struggle
and finally triumphed with the aid of powerful
monarchs converted to the new faith. Christianity had
its Constantine, Buddhism its Asoka, and
Zoroastrianism its Cyrus, each lending to his chosen
cult the mighty force of secular authority. Not so
Islam. Arising in a desert land sparsely inhabited by
a nomad race previously undistinguished in human
annals, Islam sallied forth on its great adventure
with the slenderest human backing and against the
heaviest material odds. Yet Islam triumphed with
seemingly miraculous ease, and a couple of generations
saw the Fiery Crescent borne victorious from the
Pyrenees to the Himalayas and from the desert of
Central Asia to the deserts of Central Africa."
--A.M.L.. Stoddard, quoted in ISLAM - THE RELIGION OF
ALL PROPHETS, Begum Bawani Waqf, Karachi, Pakistan, p.
56.
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"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I
am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I
believe that embedded in the Quran and other
expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of
divine truth from which I and other occidentals have
still much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong
contender for the supplying of the basic framework of
the one religion of the future.'" --W. Montgomery
Watt, ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY TODAY, London, 1983, p.
ix.
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'I believe in One God and Mohammed the Apostle of
God,' is the simple and invariable profession of
Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never
been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the
prophet have never transgressed the measure of human
virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the
gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason
and religion." --Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay,
HISTORY OF THE SARACEN EMPIRE, London, 1870, p. 54.
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"He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope
without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions
of Caesar: without a standing army, without a
bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue;
if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by
the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the
power without its instruments and without its
supports." --Bosworth Smith, MOHAMMAD AND
MOHAMMADANISM, London, 1874, p. 92.
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"His readiness to undergo persecutions for his
beliefs, the high moral character of the men who
believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and
the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue
his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an
impostor raises more problems than it solves.
Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so
poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad." --W.
Montgomery Watt, MOHAMMAD AT MECCA, Oxford, 1953, p.
52.
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"The doctrine of brotherhood of Islam extends to all
human beings, no matter what color, race or creed.
Islam is the only religion which has been able to
realize this doctrine in practice. Muslims wherever on
the world they are will recognize each other as
brothers." Mr. R. L. Mellema, Holland, Anthropologist,
Writer and Scholar.
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"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and
character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows
how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but
reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great
messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put
to you I shall say many things which may be familiar
to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a
new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for
that mighty Arabian teacher." --Annie Besant, THE
LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD, Madras, 1932, p. 4.
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"The essential and definite element of my conversion
to Islam was the Qur'an. I began to study it before my
conversion with the critical spirit of a Western
intellectual .... There are certain verses of this
book, the Qur'an, revealed more than thirteen
centuries ago, which teach exactly the same notions as
the most modern scientific researches do. This
definitely converted me."
Ali Selman Benoist, France, Doctor of Medicine.
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"I have read the Sacred Scriptures of every religion;
nowhere have I found what I encountered in Islam:
perfection. The Holy Qur'an, compared to any other
scripture I have read, is like the Sun compared to
that of a match. I firmly believe that anybody who
reads the Word of Allah with a mind that is not
completely closed to Truth, will become a Muslim."
Saifuddin Dirk Walter Mosig, U. S.A.
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"The universal brotherhood of Islam, regardless of
race, politics, color or country, has been brought
home to me most keenly many times in my life -- and
this is another feature which drew me towards the
Faith." Col. Donald S. Rockwell, U.S.A. Poet, Critic
and Author.
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"Medieval Islam was technologically advanced and open
to innovation. It achieved far higher literacy rates
than in contemporary Europe;it assimilated the legacy
of classical Greek civilization to such a degree that
many classical books are now known to us only through
Arabic copies. It invented windmills ,trigonometry,
lateen sails and made major advances in metallurgy,
mechanical and chemical engineering and irrigation
methods. In the middle-ages the flow of technology was
overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe rather from Europe
to Islam. Only after the 1500's did the net direction
of flow begin to reverse." (pg 253) Jared Diamond a
world renowned UCLA sociologist, and physiologist won
the Pulitzer Prize for his book: "Guns, Germs, and
Steel."
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