> A lot of conquered people just get erased from history as if the people conquered in the name if Islam just one day became their conquerors. Why? How can we u

> A lot of conquered people just get erased from history as if the people conquered in the name if Islam just one day became their conquerors. Why? How can we understand and learn from such strangely defined history? This is history as written by Europeans*, don't forget. So the question is: why do we refer to e.g. Newton writing in Latin as an English scientist (and not Christian, or Latin) but anyone who wrote in Arabic is either an Arab or Muslim scientist. Now this may have started due to lack of information (before Europeans came to fully survey "Middle East") but it persists to this day. One can speculate to the possible reasons, of course, but it suffices to point out the pheonomena. * Ibn Khaldun, the famous Arab historian, for example, did not have this issue (to his lasting credit): https://sonsofsunnah.com/2011/11/12/ibn-khaldun-on-the-persians-sunnah-muslims/ https://sonsofsunnah.com/2011/11/12/ibn-khaldun-on-the-persi...