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Muhammad did the same, but look at Europe during the middle ages.

During the Medieval Period, Europe was inferior to the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa culturally, politically and technologically. Excluding the Byzantine Empire which safeguarded Graeco-Roman civilization, maintained maritime control over the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea, and that greatly prospered from its trade with the Orient through its Anatolian provinces, Europe and especially Occidental Europe stagnated while the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa were united by the Muslim empires or the Islamic caliphates. For example, the Umayyad Caliphate stretched from Iberia to the Indus River Valley while the Western European kingdoms were considerably smaller and diminutive and existed as a cluster of fractured states.

In addition, while Occidental Europe had stagnated, the Muslims experienced a golden age which coincided with the Abbasid Caliphate [750-1258 CE]. This Islamic golden age lasted from ca. 750-ca. 1250 and was marked with new advances in technology, astronomy and science and consisted of notable achievements in literature, philosophy, history and poetry. Indeed, the Muslims translated Classical Greek, Hellenistic and Roman texts and amalgamated Classical Greek and Roman philosophy with the Islamic religion. The two great Islamic philosophers Avicenna and Averroes greatly influenced Western European thinking by spreading the philosophy of Aristotle to the Occident. The spread of Aristotelian philosophy which triggered the movement of Scholasticism or Medieval Scholastic logic and acted as the foundation for the philosophies of St. Thomas Aquinas and Peter Abelard occurred due to the efforts of the great Muslim philosophers such as Avicenna and Averroes.