Modern science, therefore, and its generalizations, like other fruits of that way of thinking and acting which we have associated with modernism, suffer from the lack of principles which characterize the modern world, a lack which is felt to an even greater degree as the history of the modern world unfolds.
Vyovyote vile historia iwavyo - ajali au vifo visivyozuilika, au shinikizo la hali ya maa-muzi ya kiuchumi, au vitendo vya viongozi wenye nguvu, au matokeo ya nguvu ambazo hakuna anayezijua, au matumaini ya pamoja ya watu - vyovyote historia iwavyo, Waarabu wenyewe wanaiona na kuitafsiri historia yao wenyewe zaidi kwa kigezo cha utendaji binafsi, kuliko kitu kingine chochote.