One of the most important books Muslims have, second only to Koran,
is the comments on Koran, written by a sage named El-Bokhari, coming from
Bokhara, a land far away from Arabia. But the other also learned
mohammedans, who wrote important books when Islam was blooming, were
certainly whether Persians, or Greeks or Syrians, as is El-Mamoon,
Mahmut-ibn-Moussa, Vaza-el-Tergani, Kemal-el-Din, who practiced mathematics
and geometry, El-Farabi, Ibn Rohd, El-Gotzali, Ibn Jar, who practiced
philology, Abou-Bekr-el-Andalouzi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Radouan, who practiced
medicine, and many other mohammedans from various races.
Greek was spoken in the whole East, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt,
which is why the Gospel and the other books of the Christian religion were
written in Greek. But when Mohammed’s religion spread quickly all over, as
more convenient to the unlearned masses of the East, the Arabic language
spread too, and many learned Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians, Persians, and
others became mohammedans. And when from inside Asia came a new people, the
Turks, and they became too Muslims, and managed to take
Constantinople, then
Islam covered the East, and also north Africa, without a single Arab
being among the myriads of mohammedans who fought under the green flag of
Mohammed. … Islam’s fighters were Christians who had changed their faith,
coming from races of the East that were in decay, and were attracted to the
new religion by the easy commands, the harems and all the other material
pleasures this religion pledged her followers. Greeks who became mohammedans
learned Arabic quickly and they cultivated it more at that, so that the
East, which was Greek, became Muslim, that is Arabic, without local Arabs of
Arabia contributing to this transformation.
