“It is clear that the influence of Islam on Western
Christendom is greater than is usually realised….”

This systematic suppression of the Islamic role in the rise of modern science and civilisation, through its impact on the West, has led to conclusions that hostility to Islam was the principal reason for it. Western historians, in general, have removed the Islamic source with regard to every single change that affected science and civilisation at the origin of Western civilisation, and modern civilisation, and then each and everyone has substituted a number of explanations for such changes within their field of study.

This suppression of the Islamic source of modern science and civilisation has been, however, noted by individual historians who have re-considered the his- -tory of their subject. Even Prince Charles observes: `There is also much ignorance about the debt our own culture and civilisation owe to the Islamic world… which stems from the straight jacket of history, which we have inherited…. Because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.'

This book dismantles the established Western version of history. They might have their views on Islam, as a faith, with which this author disagrees, but it is they who have preserved and conveyed much of what relates to Islamic civilisation this author has relied upon to complete this work. This author seeks to answer the matter of Islam’s contribution by addressing deficient historical writing where it is at its most vulnerable: its incapacity to rest on anything substantial when the issue is addressed from as wide a spectrum as possible. This book places many aspects of the profound impact of Islamic Civilisation into plain view and shows how it has been suppressed and distorted.

The book's more than 500 pages are packed full with thousands of referenced facts and includes a substantial select bibliography and it is set to become the standard reference work for the subject and the starting point for anyone wanting to explore the field further.