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Note that GP asked about Islam and you're answering about the Islamic world. One can wonder if those things you mentioned are really rooted in religion, or were
by rhizome31 10y ago
Note that GP asked about Islam and you're answering about the Islamic world. One can wonder if those things you mentioned are really rooted in religion, or were just invented in territories were there happened to be a prevailing religion.
As an analogy, I wonder if it would be accurate to say that electricity was brought by a given religion even though some of its most major developments happened in territories where that religion prevails.
- candiodari 10y agoIt is far, far worse than that. Algebra was transported across islamic territory by the muslim slave trade. That is the big contribution of islam. Some Hindu priests got kidnapped by muslims during the conquest of India, and after got knows how many abuses got sold to Venetian traders in Northern Africa. Venetians set them free, and gave them a platform in a monastery, and after a few decades of writing books and a number of false starts, algebra spread (in the sense that the current digits started replacing Roman numerals).