ABSTRACT
Science is the most momentous contribution of Arab civilization Oto the modern world. The Greeks systematized, generalized and theorized, but investigation, accumulation of positive knowledge, minute methods of science and prolonged observation were alien to the Greek temperament. These were introduced to Europe by the Arabs. European science owes its existence to the Arabs.’ Thus Briffault in his Making of Humanity. And George Sarton, in his monumental Introduction to the History of Science, has this to say: ‘When the West was sufficiently mature to feel the need of deeper knowledge, when it finally wanted to renew its contacts with ancient thought, it turned its attention first of all, not to Greek sources, but to the Arabic ones.’
