

With Islam dawned a new era of learning that transformed the pursuit of knowledge from the privilege of a few into the prerogative of all. Specifically, Islam fulfilled three prerequisites that earlier civilisations had lacked, allowing knowledge to truly globalise.

In the early 7th century, when academic traditions had largely faded across much of the known world, the seeds of a new intellectual revolution were sown in Arabia. What followed was a Golden Age that laid the foundations for modern science and civilisation.