Technology Transfer Quotes
However, he did run a police state with murder, torture and intimidation of political opponents.
This quotation makes it very difficult for Muslim modernists and reformers to persuade Muslims to adopt ideas, methods and approaches of the West, or China or India as this statement of the Prophet is a de facto stricture and inhibition against imitation of non-Muslims in any area.
The “gap” is different in different fields. Public health has a particularly large gap while laser app;ications have a much smaller one.
Many Muslims did not want science and technology to fall into the hands of the heathens. Even today America limits the information and technological products that can be exported to the Islamic nations. At the time it was the case that some Christian and Jewish Scholars translated Islamic scientific treatises and promoted them under their own name, but most of the translations were published and labeled as such .The reason was that at that time Europe was emerging from the Dark Ages and was scientifically relatively ignorant whereas the Muslims had the best scientists and mathematicians in the world. It was more prestigious and credible to attribute science material to Muslims. At the same time, a good bit of the Islamic science texts were translations of the great Greek scientists and some Muslims offered it as their own. Most however translated the Greek works and labeled it as such. Ibn Abdun quotations are very important because he wrote many of the Islamic legal opinions that governed Muslim Spain and influenced the Arabs of North Africa.
