Islam's 500-year golden age of art, science, medicine and philsophy until the sack of Baghdad in the 13th century was built on a merchant economy of trade links between Africa, Asia and Europe.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the religious birthplace and spiritual home of Islam, is hoping to kickstart what senior government advisers call a Muslim technological renaissance where the region is reborn as the home of knowledge and skills. As an adviser to one of the kingdom’s ruling princes said: "I have watched an archaic innovation ecosystem- uncoordinated and siloed in labour and finance – become a role model of relative coordination as leaders push across departments in a short…
