मध्यकाल के शुरुआती दौर में, अगर हम "अरब" शब्द का मतलब सिर्फ अरब प्रायद्वीप में रहने वाले लोगों से न लेकर उन सभी से लें जिनकी मातृभाषा अरबी थी, तो मानव प्रगति में जितना महत्वपूर्ण योगदान अरबों ने दिया, उतना किसी अन्य जाति ने नहीं दिया। सदियों तक, सुदूर पूर्व को छोड़कर, पूरी सभ्य दुनिया के लिए अरबी भाषा ही ज्ञान, संस्कृति और बौद्धिक प्रगति की भाषा रही। नौवीं से बारहवीं शताब्दी के बीच किसी भी अन्य मानवी भाषा की तुलना में अरबी में सबसे अधिक दार्शनिक, चिकित्सीय, ऐतिहासिक, धार्मिक, खगोलीय और भौगोलिक ग्रंथ लिखे गए।
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.
रिहानी का असली योगदान हमें अरबी और अंग्रेजी दोनों में उस Arabia (अरब) के आम जनजीवन का सबसे जीवंत और दिलचस्प वर्णन देने में है, जिसके बारे में अब तक बहुत कम लोग जानते थे।
The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.
The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.