Every Muslim sultan had his team of muftis – scholars of Islamic rulings – who had the sole purpose of making the Islamic states move in accordance to Islamic rules and regulations as much as possible.
Source/Credit: Kuwait Times
By Jeri Al-Jeri | October 30, 2017
“Whoever has his book as his sheikh will make plenty of mistakes”
There was an actual war on reading that poisoned our ancestors’ love for books. After the spread of Islam, it became well-known that the Muslim nation was a nation of reading. Europeans, during the Dark Age, were fascinated by how much time and effort the Muslim people and governments poured into anything book-related – from libraries and educational centers to paper factories; and polyglot scholars translating every readable material – even the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. Sadly, all this became history. Both Eastern and Western historians found that the Muslim world was victimized by losing its romance with the art of reading and writing. This tragedy wasn’t the making of a devilish, cerebral outsider – actually, the bane spawned within.
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