What they said about Arabic Read in the original
“For many centuries in the Middle Ages it was the language of learning and culture and progressive thought throughout the civilized world. Between the ninth and the twelfth centuries more works, philosophical, medical, historical, religious, astronomical and geographical, were produced through the medium of Arabic than through any other tongue.”
Philip K. Hitti
1886–1978
Lebanese-born American historian, professor at Princeton.
In Arabic
وقد ظلّت العربيّةُ قروناً كثيرةً في العصور الوسطى لغةَ العلمِ والثقافة والفكر التقدّميّ في أرجاء العالم المتحضّر كلِّه. وبين القرنين التاسع والثاني عشر أُلِّف بالعربيّة من الكتب — في الفلسفة والطبّ والتاريخ والدين والفلك والجغرافيا — أكثرُ ممّا أُلِّف بأيّ لسانٍ آخر.
Source
History of the Arabs, Part I, ch. I, London: Macmillan, 1943, p. 4
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