Islam and Sufism an introduction

Ramadan series (6 of 6) talk by Dr. Timothy Winters(Shaikh Abdullah Hakim Murad) of Cambridge University.   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=kNBxJ5Qbbjk   

Ramadan series (5 of 6) talk by Dr. Timothy Winters(Shaikh Abdullah Hakim Murad) of Cambridge University.   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=k_sSDdXVA4U

Ramadan series (4 of 6) talk by Dr. Timothy Winters (Shaikh Abdullah Hakim Murad) of Cambridge University. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=H4uzldtPJPA

Ramadan series(3 of 6) talks by Dr. Timothy Winters (Shaikh Abdullah Hakim Murad) of Cambridge University. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=_EfyU3DwzwA&t=409

Ramadan  series of talks (2 of 6 by Dr.Timothy Winters (Shaikh Abdullah Hakim Murad) of Cambridge University. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=M236GIE2kGI

Ramadan a series of (1 to 6) talks by Dr. Timothy Winters (Abdullah Hakim Murafd) of Cambridge University. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Z9iRHtq-rq0

Role of Suuah, Ihle Quran and other movements by Dr. Jonathan Brown of Georgetown University. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=FC6GK5ZroxM

The injunction of Islam to seek knowledge was taken seriously by the Umma.  Muslims quite early in their history started to excel in science, philosophy, medicine and other fields. Here are a few names. Jabir Ibn Haiyan ( 722-800) known as   Gebe r In Europe, is regarded as the father of chemistry.   Al-Khwārizmī (780-860) known as  Algorithmi* in Europe, invented  Algebra   and   Algorithm .   Al-Kindi (800-873) was a philosopher and a mathematician. On appointment by the Abbasides Caliph, he headed a team of translators who translated Greek Classics, works of science and medicine, from Galen into Arabic (from Arabic these works were translated into Latin and other European languages). Al Farabi (870-952) a philosopher, a scientist and a sociologist.  There were no contemporaries in Europe; it was in the dark ages. People like Dante**(1265-1321), Leonardo de Vinci (1452-1519), Shakespeare (1564-1616) and others ca...