A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by foobarbazbarfoo on Saturday September 25, 2021 @12:32AM (#28650564)

A lot of those scholars were not "Islamic" or "Muslim", just happened to live in the area. Many of them were christians (Church of the East), Sabians, Jews, or local hellenistic inspired cults. Also some of those translations were translated to other local languages (eg. Assyrian, Hebrew...) then to Arabic.

Of course, in todays world, one could say Arabic/Islam becoming the dominant culture/religion minimized the work and exposure others get.

Here are some of the more famous ones

Christians: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunayn_ibn_Ishaq - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaq_ibn_Hunayn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_of_Reshaina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masawaiyh

Sabians: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_ibn_Thabit

Cult of Sin: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thābit_ibn_Qurra

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Re:A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas by TMWNN on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:17PM (#28666452)

>Of course, in todays world, one could say Arabic/Islam becoming the dominant culture/religion minimized the work and exposure others get.

Similarly, 10,000 books have been translated into Arabic in the past 1,000 years. That is fewer than the number translated in Spain in one year. (<https://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/04/entertainment/et-ar...>)

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