Cambridge is 800 years old

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh,

On 17th January 2009, University of Cambridge was celebrating its 800th anniversary with a grand slide show on the Senate House and Old School Building, of all the achievements produced by the scholars of the university throughout the history. The fact is that this university has the most number of Nobel Prize laureates compare to any other higher institution across the world. The problem is, how can the university maintain such a reputation when Yale has just crossed Cambridge in the top ranking of the world universities making Cambridge now No. 3 in the world with Oxford trailing from behind?

Looking back at the history of scholarship during the Golden Era of Islam, the achievement in Science, Mathematics, Literature, Philosophy, Medicine, Astronomy, Sociology, Politics, etc., where are the muslims academics and scholars nowadays? From the top of the world at that time to where we are today, what went wrong? This might be a very interesting question for Cambridge to contemplate on if it wished to maintain its reputation for as long as it can.

Wassalam.