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  • When you look up anything about scientific achievements on the internet it will all be about 1500s to 1700s Europe, completely disregarding the 900s to 1200s Islamic golden age in Iraq,

    1. You literally must be looking into wrong places. No idea where and what.

    2. The golden age in the Abbasid Caliphate, not in the Iraq. Be precise here.

    Golden age of Iraq was mid 20th century when poverty was minimalised, education flourished, literacy skyrocketed, and arts boomed. Just after WW2 and during oil boom.

    1. It wasn’t just Baghdad (currently in Iraq), it was Cairo, Damascus, Fez, Samarkand, etc.

    most of its scientific knowledge from. Famous European scholars such as Fibonacci studied math in Algeria under Arabic teachers. Who got most of their material from the house of knowledge in Baghdad Iraq, the worldwide center of science at the time

    This is such a nationalistic take. Bayt al-Hikma started with translating all other existing knowledge there was to obtain. Including Greek. Including Hindu. Took them about 200 years of doing that before they added on top of it. And now you, who claim this to be forgotten ancestor, that should’ve get credited (“Fibonacci taught by Algerians, but they should be crediting Baghdad Iraq instead”), are doing the same. Baghdad Iraq and Arabic Numerals? Please, according to your logic here, its Hindu numerals in Arabic Gobar font.



  • The West has systemically erased any non-European achievement from its literature. Going as far as to rename prominent Muslim scholars such as Ibn Sinna and Ibn Rushd and give them names like Avicenna or Averroes.

    • Be me.

    • Middle ages monk.

    • Translating arabic works

    • Arabic omitted short vowels, so it was written e.g. BN.

    • My local Andalusian Arab neighbour pronounces that as Aven, Abven, Avin, and س Sin (s in sinna) was pronounced Ts.

    • So I write Avicenna.

    And now some shmuck comes 1k years later and calls it malicious systemic erasure.