RE: Do you know WikiIslam ?
May 7, 2022 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2022 at 5:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The ummah had long since become a retrograde collection of ruinous warring states long before the mongols, or the timurids, and certainly by the 1400s.
The much ballyhooed scientific golden age of islam was largely centered in persia, as the spoils of war. It's a fun relationship..as, had so much work not been collected and then written in a single language in a durable and transportable way, then it would not have been widely distributed throughout spain, and from spain..the the rest of the west. Somebody had to carry the torch when islam dropped the ball, meh. Probably one of the single largest lost opportunities for islamic thought, including islamic religion.
Image if it had been otherwise? It would be nutballs in the west whose society was premised on believing in magic and magic books to the exclusion of facts. We'd be the ones with 3rd world settlements. Poor as dogshit.
The much ballyhooed scientific golden age of islam was largely centered in persia, as the spoils of war. It's a fun relationship..as, had so much work not been collected and then written in a single language in a durable and transportable way, then it would not have been widely distributed throughout spain, and from spain..the the rest of the west. Somebody had to carry the torch when islam dropped the ball, meh. Probably one of the single largest lost opportunities for islamic thought, including islamic religion.
Image if it had been otherwise? It would be nutballs in the west whose society was premised on believing in magic and magic books to the exclusion of facts. We'd be the ones with 3rd world settlements. Poor as dogshit.
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