1. The document discusses the central importance of knowledge in the rise and fall of civilizations. It argues that knowledge, not technology, weapons, economics or politics, is the most important factor. 2. It traces the decline of Islamic civilization to events like the burning of the Library of Baghdad by Mongols and the rejection of knowledge in Europe during the Dark Ages except knowledge conforming to Christianity. 3. The document asserts that the influx of knowledge from translated Arabic texts ending the Dark Ages of Europe and the conflicts with Christianity this created led to secularization in the West and its global conquest driven by comparative military advantage.

1. The Central Importance of
Knowledge
Chapter 1, Section C of Real Statistics: A Radical Approach
Dr. Asad Zaman

2. Rise and Fall
of Civilizations

3. Ibn-e-Khaldun initiated study
of this topic. He compared
civilizations to organisms,
which are born, grow, mature,
and die.

4. Rise and Fall theme
was picked up by
Western historians,
especially Gibbon.

5. Set of factors which
govern rise and fall
of civilizations are
complex.

6. But, KNOWLEDGE is of central importance.

7. We have been taught to
believe, WRONGLY, in
technology, weapons,
economics, politics

8. Importance of Knowledge

9. Dark Ages of
Europe begin:
325 AD
Burning of library of Alexandria,
Rejection of all knowledge except that
conforming to trinitarian Christianity, after the
council of Nicea.

10. The rise of Islam began when Allah T”aala gave
knowledge to man, which he did not have.

11. Islam
encourages
the search
of
knowledge
Angels prostrate before Adam AS, after he
is given knowledge.
The ink of the scholars is more precious
than the blood of the warriors.
All of the creation prays for those who
travel in search of knowledge. Allah T’aala
makes the path to paradise easy for them

12. Libraries, Hard
Disks of
Civilization

13. Decline of
Islamic
Civilization:
Mongols
Burn Library
of Baghdad

14. Reconquest of
Toledo 1085
Translations of
Arabic Books Begins

15. Influx of Knowledge Ends Dark Ages
of Europe

16. Two centuries of translations Arabic
texts, taught in Europe.

17. New knowledge floods Europe.
Conflicts with Catholic Teachings

18. Church splits into Catholics & Protestants
Over a Century of Factional Religious Wars

19. Christianity rejected as
basis for organizing
society:
Historical Experience: it
leads to perpetual warfare
and bloodshed.

20. Global Conquest
and Colonization
by Europe

21. From Christian to Secular Society

22. Life in a Jungle
• Machiavelli: Politics based on deceit, brutal
violence, whatever it takes: All is fair in love and
war.
• Darwin’s theory reduces men to animals, and life to
survival of the fittest in a jungle.

23. European Conquest of Globe:
Enabled by comparative
advantage in violence
These moral foundations lead to brutal and
ruthless violence against ALL others civilizations
on the globe.
Standard pattern of Ibn-e-Khaldun: Energetic
young barbarians destroy established mature
civilizations.
Hoffman, Philip T. "Prices, the military revolution,
and Western Europe's comparative advantage in
violence." The Economic History Review 64
(2011): 39-59.
Findlay, Ronald. "The roots of divergence:
Western economic history in comparative
perspective." The American economic review 82.2
(1992): 158-161.

24. What is
Colonization?

25. The Conquest
of Minds!

26. Macaulay’s
(colonial)
education:
• designed to create admiration
and awe of European
civilization,
• hatred and contempt for local
culture, heritage, language,
religion.

27. Salman Rushdie: pleasing the whites
Ridicules his family & culture Ridicules his nation and people Ridicules his religion & heritage

28. Modern Western
Education: Same Effect
• Only knowledge produced by European
intellectual tradition is taught at
universities.
• All other civilizations are valued at
ZERO.

29. Edward Said:
Orientalism
• This education produces superiority
complex in the West, and inferiority
complex in the East.
See: http://bit.do/azori

30. Same education continues
after liberation?
This continues to be the educational
system, because elite upper classes and
militaries continue to rule their countries
like the colonizers – to exploit, and to
extract revenue.

31. Iqbal’s Accurate
Diagnosis
My eyes were not dazzled by the brilliance
of Western Knowledge.
They were protected by the dust of
Madina and Najaf (centers of Islamic
Learning).
The superficial brilliance of Western
intellectual achievements has dazzled our
eyes. This prevents us from appreciating
the deep wisdom of the Quran, the source
of all knowledge and light in the East and
the West.

32. The
Challenge
Facing the
Muslims
Modern Western knowledge is based on toxic moral
foundations, created by rejection of Christianity.
However, it falsely claims to be objective, positive, and
value-free.
We must EXPOSE the concealed defective moral
foundations.
Rebuild the entire stock of human knowledge on sound
epistemological foundations provided by Islam.
This is the Ghazali Project: http://bit.ly/AZghIN

33. Real Statistics: A Radical Approach Online Course: Register at:
http://bit.ly/AZRealStats

34. Modern Statistics
built on racist
foundations
• Professor of Eugenics, Sir Ronald Fisher.
• He had 8 children, in order to propagate the white
race.
• Refused to sign UN Declaration of equality of races,
on grounds that firm scientific exists for inequality of
intellectual capabilities across races.

35. Three Foundational Flaws in Statistics
http://bit.ly/3FFStat
1. Arbitrary Distributional Assumptions
2. Wrong Definition of Probability
3. No Definition of Causality

36. Real
Statistics: A
Radical
Approach
Object of course (registration:
http://bit.ly/AZRealStats) to rebuild the
entire discipline on new foundations, based
on Islamic epistemology.
This is a proof-of-concept of the Ghazali
Project.
Ghazali Project aims to rebuild the entire
stock of secular modern knowledge, created
by the West over the past few centuries, on
Islamic epistemological foundations.

37. Links to Related Materials
Writeup of
Chapter 0: Life Journey
http://bit.ly/RSRA00a
Chapter 1: Section A: http://bit.ly/RSRAb01A
Chapter 1: Section B: http://bit.ly/RSRAb01B
Register for Course at:
http://bit.ly/AZRealStats