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They transmitted the text yeah but they were not the “preserver” of the roman legacy. The byzantines viewed themselves as romans.
by christkv 7mo ago
They transmitted the text yeah but they were not the “preserver” of the roman legacy. The byzantines viewed themselves as romans.
- griffzhowl 7mo agoI was talking about Greek texts rather than Roman legacy, whatever that means. Arabs certainly preserved some of the Greek texts, because many haven't survived in origianl Greek manuscripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeco-Arabic_translation_movement#Lack_of_original_Greek_texts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeco-Arabic_translation_move... The Muslims also made original contributions to science, e.g. Ibn Sahl discovering what later became known as Snell's law of refraction.