Real Revolution — Page 135
135. Muslim scholars I would run the risk of being denounced by the Church as a heretic myself. . I should like to have the favour of your opinion on the point. If this science were to be copied, the. Church would ultimately stand to gain by the improvement in our music. The author of this book claims that the clergyman in question wrote back to the effect that there would be no harm if the translation were made, but the names of the real authors of the works should be witheld, for otherwise people would come to know that the science was being borrowed from the Arabs, which would tend to raise the Muslims in estimation of the people doing harm thereby to the position of the Church. This author claims that the letter is still to be seen in the. British Museum. . Similarly the philosophy of Ibn Rushd was taught in Paris upto 1840: only slight alteration was made in the name so that no one should know that it was Muslim philosophy that was being taught. It is also interesting to note that once it was decided in the University of Rome that in future such and such a book should be taught in place of such, Since, it was said, philosophy had during the time made much progress. But the Bishops denounced the proposed change as a heresy, not dreaming on account of the long passage of time, that the book which was be-