Arabs Contributions to World by professor Magdi Youssef, is concerned mainly with challenging the common prejudice, either subtle or open, that contemporary production in all disciplines is only the privilege of the modern west, whereas non-western societies have almost nothing to add to western achievements.
Arabs Contributions to World asserts that these non-Western societies still have quite a lot to add to world knowledge. However, he wants to address an illusion that exists in the minds of many people, especially among the intelligentsia in non-Western societies, that existing Euro-Western standards and research results constitute an "ideal" to be followed by all other cultures when dealing with nature and society.
He has chosen the approach of an Arab-Western dialogue as a means of questioning and challenging the well established stereotype that the west must exclusively define scientific and scholarly standards.
The disciplines in this book represented all branches of arts and sciences in our present day such as; the natural sciences by pharmacology and industrial engineering, social sciences through political economy, arts via architecture, which encompasses all sorts of plastic arts and contemporary literary discourse field.
This book means that one tries drawing on solutions specific to one's socio-culture environment in dealing with nature, either physically, socially or artistically.
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