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=> Re: The Ikhwan Al-Safa

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, September 23 2010, 23:47:06 (UTC)
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Arrow wrote:
>It's amazing that most of the prominent Muslim scientists in history, such as Ibin Rushd, Ibin Sina, Al Farabi, and are of Persian origin.

....you forgot al Kindi, who is acclaimed by Muslims as their greatest philosopher/scientist/polymath. It isn´t so surprising when you consider that Persian roots go back through the highly civilized Assyrians right through to the equally refined Sumerians...the Arabs, on the other hand, had not much of a higher culture, except in poetry, at the time of the Conquest, mostly because they were nomads and bedouin don´t live settled enough lives to create culture...but the Arabs, like Sargon's Akkadians, also from the desert, as well as Hammurabi and his crude and tent-dwelling Amorites, soon were conquered in turn by those they conquered and added their zest and enthusiasm and energy and youth to the more refined and sedentary cultures...happens all the time in history.

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The Ikhwan Al-Safa pancho - Thursday, September 23 2010, 20:38:08 (UTC)
- Re: The Ikhwan Al-Safa Rashad - 09/23 21:01
- Re: The Ikhwan Al-Safa Arrow - 09/23 22:00
  - Re: The Ikhwan Al-Safa pancho - 09/23 22:06
    - Re: The Ikhwan Al-Safa Arrow - 09/23 22:48
      - Re: The Ikhwan Al-Safa pancho - 09/23 23:47
      - Re: The Ikhwan Al-Safa Rashad - 09/24 05:40

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