Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — Arabian Manuscripts. [ARTICLE]

Arabian Manuscripts.

The collection of manuscripts which the Sultan of Morocco has turned over to the Medresseh, or High School, of Fez, proves to comprise copies of numerous West Arabian works which in Spain were destroyed by the holy inquisition. In scientific attainments the scholars of the Moorish Universities were several hundred years ahead of their Trinitarian rivals, and by ignoring their existence Christian historians of civilization have been obliged to assume a thousand years interregnum of science. In the ghastly night of the middle ages Bagdad and Cordova were the intellectual Losliens, still en;oving the light of a sun which in the land oi their neighbors seemed to have set forever at the downfall of the Roman Empire.