It lifts the veil on hundreds of innovations - from kiosks and chess through to windmills and cryptography - that are often popularly associated with the western world but originate from Muslim scholarship and science.

nice find!

While Europe was stuck in the Dark Ages, Muslim scholars explored biology, mathematics, navigation and economics. Without their knowledge the modern world would not be what it is today.

those inventions enhanced the world.

Yes indeed, but don't brag, or you will begin to sound like one of us westerners