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[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

And to better sell this idea of Arabs not producing science or literature, let us ban algebra and algorithms so people don't think of those things ever.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And also ...capitalism?

Early forms of capitalism are thought to have been developed in the Islamic Golden Age starting from the 9th century, and later became dominant in European Muslim territories like Al-Andalus and the Emirate of Sicily. The Islamic economic concepts taken and applied by the gunpowder empires and various Islamic kingdoms and sultanates led to systemic changes in their economy, particularly in the Mughal Empire. Bengal, a major trading nation of the medieval world, signaled the period of proto-industrialization making direct contribution to the world's first Industrial Revolution after the British conquests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_economics

(I do know Islam ≠ Arab but a lot of key researchers and their peers were Arab)

[-] ghurab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Al-khwarizmi was not Arab tho.

[-] Felis_Catus_Domesticus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Arab ≠ Islamic Not always.

Many non-Arab peoples also adopted Islam.

Be sure to read the fine print when reading about history..

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[-] Khwarezm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Came to say this lol!!! What a racist, stupid man!!

[-] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And America should go back to the Good Old Roman numerals, as God intended! None of this Arabic numbers crap. /s

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