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After listing the Persian, Hellenistic and other sources of Islamic civilisation:
“Despite this diversity of its origins Islamic civilisation was no mere mechanical juxtaposition of previous cultures but rather a new creation in which all these elements were fused into a new and original civilisation by the transposition into Arabic and Islamic forms, recognisable and characteristic in every phase of its achievement.”
Bernard Lewis
1916–2018
British-American historian of the Middle East (London, Princeton).
In Arabic
ولم تكن الحضارةُ الإسلاميّةُ، رغمَ تنوّعِ أصولها هذا، مجرّدَ تجميعٍ آليٍّ للثقافات القديمة، بل هي بالأحرى خَلْقٌ جديدٌ انبثّت فيه جميعُ هذه العناصر لتكوّنَ حضارةً جديدةً أصيلةً، وذلك بأنِ انتقلت إلى صُوَرٍ عربيّةٍ إسلاميّة. وهذه العمليّةُ سِمةٌ مميِّزةٌ لكلّ مرحلةٍ من مراحل تطوّر هذه الحضارة.
Source
The Arabs in History, ch. VIII, London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1954, p. 135
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