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Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by thrower123 on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:24AM (#18298536)
One might, on the other hand, wonder what might have happened if the Mongols hadn't been infected by Islamic schism and dynastic troubles and completed their push through into Mamluk Egypt. As pivotal as Ayn Jalut was, the groundwork for that failure was laid in the religious conversion of [1]Berke and the Golden Horde to Islam.

[1] Initially listed his brother Batu, rather than Berke, the first Muslim Khan.

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Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by Scriptor on Thursday October 25, 2018 @12:44AM (#18298587)
Very true! Egypt was able to continue mostly unscathed. Perhaps this indicates that the Arab golden age was in its twilight? Maybe the Mamluks didn't invest in the sciences as much as the Fatimids?

And even further west Andalusia was still chugging along. That was definitely an important source of knowledge for the first universities in the rest of Europe.

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