abu_rashid
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The thread is locked because it is a sticky thread designed to provide information, not be a venue of discussion.
If you'd like to discuss your revisionist bovine faeces then feel free to open a thread about it and go for your life.
Regarding the topic of Babylonians, nobody doubts Babylonians used some of the concepts that make up algebra, they did not systemise algebra as we know it today, just as the Wright brothers did not discover space travel, just because they were the first to engage in controlled flight.
No individual or collective civilisation can claim to have been solely responsible for any discoveries since the dawn of mankind, because all knowledge is built on prior knowledge, that in essence is what civilisation is all about, not going back to square one each time.
But honestly, those dropkicks who try to rob Islamic civilisation of its advancements just come off as petty and juvenile. Islamic civilisation brought more advancements to civilisation than any before them, just as Western civilisation has brought more than any before them... see the pattern? Or does your cultural supremacism blind you to clear and obvious facts even at the most fundamental level?
Remember, it's called algebra (al-Jabr) for a reason, and that word is clearly NOT a Babylonian word.
When you can find me a single scientist who hasn't built upon and been inspired by his predecessors, then perhaps this discussion might be worth having, until then, it is nothing but moot. It's a forgone conclusion that Islamic scientists built on previous works, just as all other scientists in the history of human civilisation did. Peddling the idea Muslims were the only to do that does nothing but make you appear as a grade A donkey.
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