The history of the feudal Islamic world

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Arab historic personalities in science
ArabicNews, 26 May 1998. Arab philosophers effectively integrated faith and scientific facts, letting one exist within the framework of the other. The Arab philosophers after Byzantium rediscovered the classic philosophy of Aristotle, and Plato in attempting to find answers to the fundamental questions concerning God's creation of the universe, the nature and destiny of the human soul, and the true existence of the seen and the unseen.
Vocational unionist activities in old Arab history
Arabic News19 June 1998. Industry and crafts unions, the Sunf as defined by the Abbasid historian Ibn Manzour, is a group of carpenters, ironsmiths, tailors, plowmen, wheel makers, canal engineers, or others organized in one craft, union or cooperative. The Sunf is an example of an Arab contribution to the history of world unionism and cooperatives.
Arab contributions to 13th-century science
Dialog on the H-Mideast-Medieval list, February 1999. Notes for a faculty colloquium. Recovery of the ancient scientific corpus in the 12-13th century and its contribution to the development of Europe. Critique of the mainstream paradigm that reduces Arab science to mere preservation of ancient learning. Arab scholarship made its own important contribution to the development of Europe. Paul D. Buell appends note concerning Arab contributions to Eastern development as well.