Dr. Ahmed Abdel Qader Al-Muhandis

The beginning of the European Renaissance came after their exposure to the scientific, medical and intellectual heritage of the Arabs, and they began to have a great sense of failure and inability to keep up with the strong intellectual current of the Arabs and Muslims. It was almost established in the minds of Westerners that there was no way to match the Arabs. This psychological state was well depicted by the Italian poet (Petrarch) when he addressed his people saying: "What! Cicero was able to be an orator after Demosthenes, and Virgil was able to be a poet after Homer, and then after these Arabs, no one is allowed to write? We have often kept up with the Greeks and sometimes surpassed them, then you say: We cannot reach the level of the Arabs, O imagination! With the genius of Italy's sleeping."

Perhaps the most famous Orientalist to define Arabic sciences is (George Sarton), the owner of the famous introduction to the history of science, in addition to his other research published in various scientific journals regarding Arab Islamic sciences. Sarton was the first to put Arabic science on the map of general science, and praised the achievement of Arab scientists. George Sarton refers to the depth of the Arab influence on Western civilization and the expansion of its horizons by saying: "If it were not for the works of Arab scientists, the scientists of the European Renaissance would have had to start from where these started, and the progress of civilization would have been delayed for several centuries."