What is special about Arab scholars?

Answer 1

Arab scholars, contrary to much criticism in the west now, were more than just "go betweens" between India and the west, transfering knowledge from India to the western world, and they were more than just "preservers" of Greek knowledge; they made many important innovations. Also, its not like the ancient Greeks where white either; genetic tests have shown, that the most common genetic haplogroup in Greece, is haplogroup J, which is found primarily (in its largest concentrations) in the Middle East. That it is the most common in Greece, and it is ESPECIALLY prevalent in the Greek islands, where they did not mix with Slavs, and are still "pure" Greeks, means that the ancient Greeks, where not white to start with. This is critical information; western law, democracy, science, and now there is scientific proof of it, it did not begin with white people. Greece, culturally speaking is even barely a part of Europe. Although, the modern Greek people ARE white; its the Slav in them. Moving on; Calculus for example, was not invented by Leibnitz. He has been given credit for years, well him and Newton, for developing it, but the truth is Calculus existed in India centuries earlier, as well as Algebra. So, why are the Arabs important? Although Algebra was known in India, the old, ancient Indian method was extremely slow and cumbersome. The Arabs, streamlined it, and when it was passed to Europeans, because they were using a streamlined, simpler, more efficient version of Algebra, they arrived at Calculus theory much faster than India did. I think it took India, somewhere around 1 millenia to get to Calculus, whereas in Europe, it only took two centuries. Remember we are dealing with math here; if it is true that it is a universal language, if you give any culture Algebra, it will arrive at Calculus sooner or later. Europeans were able to do it faster, thanks largely to the Arabs, who in fact did the world of math a HUGE favor by simplifying the often cumbersome and ineficient Indian methods. All the math you studied in grade, high school and college, is in fact Arab, with the exception of Calculus. Arab scholars were ABOUT to attempt to streamline Indian calculus, sadly, inter tribal squables among the Caliphs, caused the Islamic sultanate they controlled to fall on its face. The Arabs also made many important advances in medicine, chemistry and astronomy. Again though, all that was undone, by intertribal squabling. [[User:67.148.120.72|67.148.120.72]]stardingo747