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Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)
- techdragon 11y agoMuch more detailed than I expected, and yet somewhat lacking in reach. It stops with Ash'ari and ignores further intellectually repressive trends that developed over the next thousand years, notably Wahhabism which has led to much of the problematic fundamentalists we currently have. (Note: Not a Muslim, or much of a theological scholar, just an occasional student of interesting historical stuff.)
- amai 11y agoI believe this list might be relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_scientists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_scientists