The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c5.s3.6

c5.s3.6

Crusades saved Western civilization in the Middle Ages. They saved it from any self-centred localism; they gave it breadth-and a vision. On the other hand, Muslim victories made Muslim vision narrow and myopic. So that today Christians are larger in numbers and technologically and militarily more advanced than Muhammadans. As these lines are being written (August 1990), their armies and ships are spreading all over the West Asian region beginning with Saudi Arabia.