Dr.  Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in physics summarized Sarton’s  history pertaining to the Muslim scientists in an article, Islam and  Science – Concordance or Conflict?  Salam highlighted Sarton’s  evaluation of history in this article and it was published in Review of  Religions in March 1995, he said:

Barely a hundred years after the Holy Prophet’s death the Muslims had made it  their task to master the then-known sciences. Systematically, they translated  the entire corpus of the then known knowledge in their religious language,  Arabic. Founding institutes of advanced study (Bait-ul-Hikmas), they acquired an  ascendancy in the sciences that lasted for the next 350 years. A  semi-quantitative measure of this is given by George Sarton in his monumental  History of Science. Sarton divides his story of the highest achievement in  science into Ages, each Age lasting 50 years. With each, he associates one  central figure: thus, 500-450 BC is the Age of Plato, followed by the Ages of  Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes and so on. From 750 to 1100 CE, however, it is an  unbroken succession of the Ages of Jabir, Khwarizmi, Razi,Masudi, Abu’I-Wafa,  Biruni and Omar Khayam.  In those 350 years, Arabs, Turks, Afghans and  Persians chemists, algebraists, clinicians, geographers, mathematicians,  physicists and astronomers of the commonwealth of Islam-held the world stage of  sciences. Only after 1100 CE, in Sarton’s scheme, do the first Western names  begin to  appear; however, for another 250 years, they share the honors  with men of Islam like Ibn Rushd, Nasir-ud-din Tusi and Ibn  Nafis.

Whereas, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, and Archimedes are well known and  common household names, the names of Jabir, Khwarizmi, Razi, Masudi,  Abu’I-Wafa, Biruni and Omar Khayam are hardly known, in the West.  If  George Sarton’s evaluation is true and I believe it is, then what a tragedy and  injustice was perpetrated under the oppression of the Catholic Church and later  the British Empire that humanity came to forget the names of its great Arab and  Persian heroes and benefactors.  What an epiphany to learn this after  centuries of distortions!

Now a little introduction to George Sarton from Wikipedia.

George Sarton (/ˈsɑrtən/; 1884–1956) was a Belgian–American chemist and historian who is considered the founder of the discipline of history of science.^[1] He has a significant importance in the history of science and his most influential work was the Introduction to the History of Science, which consists of three volumes and 4,296 pages. Sarton’s ultimate goal was to achieve an integrated philosophy of science that provided a connection between the sciences and the humanities, which he referred to as “the new humanism”.^[2]