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French authority, a writer whose accuracy, ability
and learning are attested by all European scholars,
in one of his best-known works, The Intellectual Development
of Europe, has written a detailed account
in this connection, that is, with reference to the derivation
by the peoples of Europe of the fundamentals of
civilization and the bases of progress and well-being
from Islám. His account is exhaustive, and a translation
here would unduly lengthen out the present work
and would indeed be irrelevant to Our purpose. If
further details are desired the reader may refer to that
text.
In essence, the author shows how the totality of
Europe's civilization--its laws, principles, institutions,
its sciences, philosophies, varied learning, its civilized
manners and customs, its literature, art and industry,
its organization, its discipline, its behavior, its commendable
character traits, and even many of the words
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