just for the sake of argument, lets say Mūsā al-Khwārizmī actually did invent algebra, all that means is that a PERSIAN invented it, the fact he was a muslime has zero, zip, nada to do with it.
Posted on 08/11/2013 4:38:30 PM PDT by Enza Ferreri
Back in HS, the bullies who beat kids for their lunch money were incredibly, smart at algebra and math. Must be the money they kept counting every time they beat someone up.
Besides pedophilia and killing anyone who disagrees, what have they accomplished.
The Muslims translated the Greek writings into Arabic where their philosophers made use of the Greek ideas.
Around 1100 A.D. when the Spanish were taking back their lands from the Muslims, they discovered the translated works.
The Archbishop of Toledo assembled a group of Christian (Catholic), Islamic and Jewish philosophers who all worked together to get the Greek writings translated into Latin.
Curiously, after many years of having benefited from the Greek writings the mullahs in charge decided to forgo anymore work using the Greek writings, whereas the West headed by the Catholic Church understood the benefit of studying the Greek philosophy.
This decision by the Church to not stifle the inquiry preceded and encouraged the Renaissance.
The Islamic religion became stunted when it turned its back on the Greek philosophers.
They are essentially still living in the 1100s.
Everybody completely disregards the Byzantines - the eastern half of the Roman empire that kept on truckin' for 1,000 years after the western Roman empire collapsed. That's where the muslims got their hands on the Greek philosophers and mathematicians and that's where western Europe was re-introduced to those works during the Crusades.
Um... Except the correct name for them is hindu arabic numbers. The "hindu" being there for a reason. BTW the Arabs do not use the numeric symbols we call arabic numbers.
As a student of history, I will look into your claims.
Liberals love to tell the world how important Islam is. Meanwhile Islam slays women and gays, mutilates women, and enforces a fundamentalistic views. Weird hoe Liberals support this religion, and yet condemn Christianity
...and I’ve been wrong before. The Arab architecture I’ve seen is responsible for my present “feelings” on the subject, but I will consider that I am wrong, as that’s what learning is all about.
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I don't think the Crusaders took too many books home. Most of the Greek to Muslim to Christendom knowledge transfer took place in Spain. When the Muslim rulers left Spain they left behind vast libraries - and swarms of Jewish scholars who could translate.
Add Coffee to the list...
Muslims are the only culture (yes, the umma has existed since the 7th century, and it is inseperable from islam; Until the 20th century, there was no word in arabic for "country.") with the arrogance to claim that a name they used for things existing and understood for millennia, not only can, but should be claimed by their culture.
The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, all knew and named constellations. But none, so far as I know had the presumption to claim that they "discovered" them.
Same with math, medicine, mechanics, architecture, engineering. Islam conquered countries and cultures, adopted their knowledge, then froze all future progress in its tracks.
If it's not in the queer-an, it is not worth knowing. Ignorance, illiteracy and stupidity are islams's main contribution to history.
Then you’ll have to explain why the first algebra problem was:
If Ali starts riding his camel from Mecca toward Riyadh at 2 mph, and Khalil starts riding his camel from Riyadh toward Mecca at 3 mph, how far from Mecca will they meet? The distance from Riyadh to Mecca is 546 miles. For extra credit, how far from Mecca will they meet if Ali stops three times to kill infidels along the way, taking an hour for each stop? Show your work.
I prefer the Greek and Roman names, but no one other than astronomers really care.
Nothing Arabic can possible be cool. Even their most magnificent architects were Jews, even if they were given Arabic names.
just for the sake of argument, lets say Mūsā al-Khwārizmī actually did invent algebra, all that means is that a PERSIAN invented it, the fact he was a muslime has zero, zip, nada to do with it.
Algebra used to be called “Euclid” and goddammit...Euclid was no moozlimb.!
My Dad sez if there wasn’t oil in the Middle East they would all be fighting over who stole whose camel and no one would give a flying turkey trot what happened there.
And yet Archimedes was doing calculus prior to Christ.
Sorry, they can’t claim the naming of stars either.
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