Author: Abed L. Azab

One of the magnificent chapters in Arab-Islamic history took place in the cultural-scientific revolution that came in the wake of the establishment of the Muslim empire in the Middle Ages, when dozens of scientists and intellectuals who were not of Arab origin became a part of it. Among the most prominent was the giant of Arabic grammar, the poet and philosopher Al-Zamakhshari (1074-1143), originally from Central Asia.In one of his poems, in which he wanted to express amazement about something, he says: “And I am amazed because the swords and spears, that in spite of their being male, menstruate [bleed]…