Scientific advancement of Islamic Civilization and its Caises

"The common thread or theme in all the centers of Islamic civilization was the primacy of tawhid, which inspires reverence for the coherence of the universe as a purposeful manifestation of God. This was the governing paradigm for the civilization’s creativity in science, art, and architecture, which focused on the transcendent rather than on the immanent. This contrasted with the European civilization where the governing paradigm was more clearly to control and exploit the material world as the center of reality.

The Islamic civilization, building on the early Greeks and Chinese, developed the scientific method, which was important for its rise, but its guiding purpose was to seek truth. The West, on the other hand, borrowed the scientific method from the Islamic civilization and further developed it in the search for power."
The American Muslim (TAM)