The Muslim Influence on Europe and the West - Part 2 of 2 (Understanding Islam Series: Session 6)

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This lecture is part 8 of a complete series of 8 lectures entitled "Understanding Islam":
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXoLwyelxOg
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJgoGBQ0k8
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv_wKR9hoK4
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ_lXtzrEp0
5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbvG4KffgSI
6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylx7bDbEA3U
7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc-oWwGUM6I
8) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAON3F3B0wc

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In his final address to the non-Muslim participants of the New Mexico educational retreat, Abdal Hakim looks at the other aspects of the long-standing historical interaction of the three Abrahamic faiths, such as the transmission of science, technology, and philosophical ideas from the Islamic world to the Western world. Islam in the middle ages was a very successful commercial and material civilization and this fact combined with the Muslim's strategic geographic positions allowed for such a profound influence and contribution. The speaker looks at the economic/cultural/scientific contributions in the areas of maritine navigation and exploration, agriculture, music, poetry, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, chemistry, and much more. (Recorded at the Dar al Islam Teachers' Institute seminar).