Re:A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History
by 37074177throw on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:28AM
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Muslims, not Arabs. Also you are mistaken about Arabs passing Persian knowledge. Initially invading Arabs were given to destroying books. It was Muslim Persians who did most of the translation, and subsequently elaboration of the ancient world’s thinking into the Muslim civilization and from there to Europe. And yes, they wrote in Arabic just like Isaac Newton wrote Principia in Latin. And most of us now write in English, but are we Anglos?
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Re:A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History
by adrian_b on Friday September 01, 2023 @12:02PM
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I agree than many of the most important scientific advances in the Muslim world were due to Persians, like the classification of the chemical substances made by Avicenna, who has written in Arabic, as you say.
However, the works of Avicenna and others like him have reached Europe through Arabs, frequently through Spain.
If you know of another path to Europe for the Persian Arabic works, I am curious to hear which is it.