Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)

Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by dfhdshfff on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:49PM (#20630446)

arab is not used as an ethnicity but refers to someone who speaks arabic as a mother tongue. In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab.

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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by jlg23 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:32AM (#20632205)

> In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab.

Not sure where you got this from, here in Morocco, calling a Berber an Arab is a pretty sure way to piss him/her off.

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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by dfhdshfff on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:09AM (#20632322)

Tunisia, Lybia. 99% of Tunisians self identify as Arabs

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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by mehrdadn on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:38PM (#20631312)

A whopping ~2% of Iranians have Arabic as their native language. That means, if you're going based on language, you're mislabeling 98% of the population.

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Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) by dfhdshfff on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @01:11AM (#20632129)

I hold it to be obvious that I'm talking about the scientists (That lived in the Islamic Golden age) not about modern day Iran.

Plus Most of them were not born in Iran proper.

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