Arab Scientific Rationality: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction

Abstract

European historians of science, and those who follow their approach, usually move from ancient science (Greek Aristotelian) to modern European science, considering the Middle Ages between them as an era of ignorance and darkness, because the minds of other races according to Eurocentrism are deficient and incapable of scientific creativity. But the opposite is true, as Arab scientific rationality refuted Greek theories that represented scientific traditions, and established new sciences and scientific theories on new foundations and a philosophy that completely differs from the Greek model, which contradicts modern scientific discourse, and paved the way for the modern scientific revolution. Without their scientific efforts, the course of human civilization would have been delayed for many centuries.