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1. impact and contributions of the Islamic
Civilization on the European Renaissance.
Europeans, who most wantedto destroyIslam and the Muslim world,
benefitedmost from the achievements ofIslamic civilization,
especially in the areas of science and medicine. Further, the Mongols,
who devastatedthe Muslim worldand whose help the Crusaders
sought to destroy Islam, went onto convert to Islam and extend
Islamic civilizationfor severalmore centuries.They also were
responsible for creatingMughalIndia, another Muslim state, which
together withSafavid Iran and OttomanTurkey, kept Islamic
civilizationalive until the comingofEuropeancolonizers.
Islamic society strongly influencedscience, medicine, philosophy, and
literature in Europe. MedicalpracticeinEurope was largely basedon
Islamic medicine and using wisdom of Jewishand Muslim doctors.
Westernmedicine was for many centuries the continuationofIslamic
medicine. There was acontinuationin the West of learning from the
Muslims, despite the verbaldenial of deriving knowledge of medicine
from the Muslim world. Islamic medicine did receive literary
speakingworldvia Chaucer and-endorsement inthe English
Shakespeare.