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Interesting because in a way the Islamic faith has been dealing with the opposite problem. During the Medieval era a lot of the most prominent scientific disco
by bliblah 7y ago
Interesting because in a way the Islamic faith has been dealing with the opposite problem.
During the Medieval era a lot of the most prominent scientific discoveries in Europe were done by Muslim scholars in a wide variety of fields.
However the modern radical approach to the religion has definitely resulted in many scientists having to abandon their countries and faith due to a variety of reasons.
- panzagl 7y agoThe medieval Arab world was the inheritor of a Greco-roman culture that they initially ruled with a light hand as a aristocratic minority. As the Arab and eventually Turkish culture asserted itself and turned inward those remnant disappear. By the time modern fanaticism rose, that brief flourishing had been gone for at least 500 years.
- mikorym 7y agoI know this is true at least from a mathematical point of view. The common knowledge case is the conic sections that were discovered during this time. But like the library of Alexandria, our historical knowledge has the infortunate property of being limited by extant texts.