This valuable book aims, as its author stated: "to correct the common misconceptions among Westerners about the backwardness of the Arab nation in the fields of culture, and their constant judgment of it, under all circumstances, as a mere follower that imitates the Greeks in intellectual culture and the Hebrews in religious doctrine, with no prior achievements of its own to which those Greeks and Hebrews owe anything.

And the Europeans have persisted in this claim with a hateful insistence that reveals ill intent, and it appears as if they are forcefully seeking reasons for fabrication and denial, creating them out of nothing, and deviating from the right path...

This hateful insistence is what we want to eliminate, and to eliminate its effects in the minds of those affected by it among the victims of foreign doctrines among us Easterners, and they are - unfortunately - not few...

The Arab nation has not fallen short and will not fall short of any preceding nation in its field when the means of knowledge are available to it, and the paths to the goal are paved for it, and this goal will not cease at any time."

And asserting this truth must be an incentive for us today to trust in ourselves, our minds, and our capabilities, and to engage in fair competition with other nations, racing towards eminence, civilization, progress, and scientific innovation.