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> Yes, but bookstores are not filled with books written by Muslim historians. There is only side to the story being presented, and that's what annoys me. When
by thrawy4567 11y ago
> Yes, but bookstores are not filled with books written by Muslim historians. There is only side to the story being presented, and that's what annoys me.
When you are annoyed that modern historians/ authors omitted - Islamic Golden Age (IGA) - in the history of Mathematics and directly jump from Greek -> Renaissance[0], you are only singling out IGA and not calling out the omission of Indian (Aryabhatta, Bhaskara et al - pls refer to [2]) or Chinese (The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art,Pascal's Triangle[3]) contributions. You might yourself be doing a non-willful omission and adding to the biases further. ("Greek -> IGA -> Renaissance" vs "Greek -> Chinese -> Indian -> IGA -> Renaissance")
[0] which may have been true earlier but I don't think it's true anymore - as one comment confirms that US schools have it in their curriculum, also Indian schools have in their curriculum.
As another commenter said, it's time to move on. In wikipedia, modern text books and elsewhere, this discrepancy is being/ has been set right and credit is given where credit is due.
[2]
Baudhayana - Śulba Sūtras- 800 BCE
Pāṇini (c. 520–460 BCE)
Aryabhata 476-550 CE
Varahamihira 505-587 CE
BrahmaGupta 598 CE
Bhaskara 600-680 CE
[3]
Jia Xian - Pascal's Triangle - 1010 CE
Zhoubi Suanjing c. 1000 BCE-100 CE -Astronomical theories, and computation techniques -Proof of the Pythagorean theorem etc.,
- Cyph0n 11y agoI'm a Muslim, so that's why I brought only the Islamic contributions up. However, I agree with you 100% that any region, religion, or entity that contributed to some field deserves recognition. Historical omission and/or rewriting is unacceptable in all cases.