ARABIC CULTURE

       The cultural history of the Arabs begins in the seventh century, which witnessed the rise of Islam and the northward expansion of Arabs power. a power destined to dominate. a large part
of the inhabited world in less than a century.
       Despite the numerous political and theological tensions, the Arabs were able
throughout. a period extending from the downfall of the Persian and Byzantine empires in the seventh century to the almost the whole of ancient learning, to integrate it into their own cultural life, and
to raise the level of the knowledge in the field of mathematics , medicine, astrono-my and philosophy to unprecedented hei-ghts .
       
         The conquest of the Near East by Al_
exander the Great in the fourth century B.
C. and in particular the founding of Alex2a-ander in 332 B.C., set the stage for
the eastward migration of  Greek philoso-phy and science. During the Ptolemaic p-eriod , Alexandria became the cultural ce-
enter of the the ancient world .  It's captu-
ed expVerssio2Amer bin Al-As " in
641 A.D . Ushered in a period of Arab cult-
ral domination in the Near East that laste-
d almost half a millennium .

       Arabic culture reached its highest sta-
ge of development between the ninth and
eleventh centuries and experienced a nu-
ber of amajor revivals During the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries to a waken from
the Dark ages. From the twelfth century to the Renaissance ,via translation and co
pying Activities in Spain. Sicily and Syria the bulk of Arabic writing in all fields was
made available in Latin. Despite the poor
quality of translation and sscholarship s

that prevailed in the west at that time , th-
ese Latin Versions revived the spirit of le-
arning in Western europe during the late Middle ages.

written by Mohammed Abdullah salim