higherlearning institutions teach that nothing happened over a thousand years is notjust beyond comprehension, but against academic rules of rigorousquestioning. Students, who are trained to think critically, suddenly face asudden darkness of ten centuries, and then are told things appeared, as if by amiracle, all at once in the Renaissance

It is often repeated that Islamic science declined precipitously after 1200CE (usually attributed to the religious reactionaries such as al-GhazÁlë [d.1111 CE]), that the Ancient Sciences were not taught in the schools(madrasa’s), and that the influence of Islamic science on Europe ceasedafter the magical date of 1200.