اندلسی کتب خانوں کے یورپ پر اثرات

Abstract

The eminence of any nation depends upon its libraries. As it is impossible to live without oxygen, a man’s evolution is impossible without a book. Hence, Books always build the Nation. Among one lakh, twenty-four-thousands prophets, the apostles are those who possess books. Holy Prophet (PBUH) asked his Ummah to follow the book of Allah and his sunnah for their ultimate survival in his sermon of Farewell Hajj. Lord Macaulay prefers to be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. Without a book, no philosopher, author, researcher, scientist, chemist, mathematician, astronaut, and scholar could ever be born. It was Muslims’ bravery and perseverance that led them entered into African continent after conquering Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, and Egypt. Robert Briffault mentions that modern European civilization would never have arisen without Arabs; Science is their most momentous contribution. He considers Andalus the cradle of the rebirth of Europe. As per Scott, Frederick II has spread Muslims’ education to Europe. Andalus’s scholars: Ibn Rushd’s philosophy, Ibn-e-Baitar’s botany, Abu-ul-Qasim’s surgery, Ibn-al-Uloom’s agriculture and Ibn-al-khatib’s history took Europe to new horizons. Ibn-e-Rasheed highlights that Cordoba has the maximum number of books on the Earth. Some of the renowned Scholars who spread Arabic education in Europe: Roger Bacon, Robert of Chester, Plato, Jairad, Fenachi, Abu Bakr Razi, Ibn Zahr, Castle, Depok, William Jones, George Cell, Lane Poole, William Right, Arnold, Charles Lyall, Nicholson, Brown, etc.