Monde musulman et science

Un article vraiment intéressant qui vaut le coup d’être lu en entier :

http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/why-the-arabic-world-turned-away-from-science

On y trouve notamment cette statistique édifiante :

Forty-six Muslim countries combined contribute just 1 percent of the world’s scientific literature; Spain and India each contribute more of the world’s scientific literature than those countries taken together. In fact, although Spain is hardly an intellectual superpower, it translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years.