Islam and Arab Civilization, Part Two

This book follows a three-pronged approach: it presents, then responds, then proves and clarifies. In it, he cites the criticism of critics, the bias of most orientalists, and the falsehood of the populists, so he responds to this statement and to that statement, and shows his error, his bad vision, and the clarity of his abridgment, and discusses most of their issues and details them as much as possible, so he leaves you in the end to establish the truth, whatever it may be, and whatever the hand that seized it. When he finishes this, he begins with the statement, so he addresses the history of the Arabs from before Islam and then during it, so he speaks about some of their customs, trade, wealth, sciences, and aspects of their lives, and discusses their Arabic and its features and its effect on languages, Eastern and Western, and for more clarification, he compares the state of the Arab countries with the state of the Franks in some eras, and presents what the former left in the countries of the latter and what they spread in their countries of traces of progress in various aspects, such as in Sicily, Andalusia, and the borders of France, then he comes to something of the Crusades, then to the raids of the Mongols and the Turks. And their destruction, and the raids of the colonists on the Arab countries, and he leaves this to be occupied with the doctrines of Islam, its sects and its sciences, so he studies its administration in historical order, then its policy, and concludes with a comparison of politics between the East and the West and criticizes the policy of the Turks at that time.