Unfortunately, Muslim societies do not encourage people going into academia and research. In their minds, studying 7-10 years only to do research and teach, and not earn much money, is not a smart thing to do. This is why you will find plenty of Muslim doctors and engineers, but not nearly as many biologists and theoretical physicists. But we need academics who can devote time to understanding and interpreting information theory, higher level math, probability theory, genomics, cosmology and philosophy, etc. So there needs to be a financial and societal incentive for that.