[marshmallow]

This is an excerpt from Scott's book Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisted. Earlier excerpts are available at the link to New English Review.

[Lady Lucky]

To each his own. A fellow historian and I just read as far as we could endure, and found it disconnected, illogical, unsubstantiated, regurgitated chunks of crap.

[Mrs. Don-o]

bttt

[omega4412]

This new Islamic culture inherited the resources, wealth, and learning of the old one

Inherited??? Seized by force the resources and wealth of Graeco-Roman civilization, but did not manage to destroy all the learning of Greece, Rome, Persia, Egypt, India...