>Let's face it, the West in general does a great job of overstating Islamic contributions to Chemistry, Algebra, Algorithms, Astronomy, the Scientific Method, e

>Let's face it, the West in general does a great job of overstating Islamic contributions to Chemistry, Algebra, Algorithms, Astronomy, the Scientific Method, etc. More accurate. Ironically enough, this born out of a very Western European point of view. While progress had slowed in the West during the Middle Ages, it was continuing on in the Byzantine Empire. In the past, the Byzantines were not Christian enough to receive credit for their contributions by likes of Edward Gibbon, now it seems to have swung the other way and they are too Christian for contemporaries to go out of their way to praise.