今天，在西方国家的大学里随处可见几乎所有领域的杰出的阿拉伯学者，这种人才外流的结果本身反映了伊斯兰社会数个世纪以来的衰微。
Today, Western universities are replete with distinguished Arab scholars in almost every field – the result of a brain drain that itself reflects the Islamic world’s centuries of decline.