[GOPJ]

Aren't Assyrian the group that contributed the intellectual illusion to Arab claims of achievement?

[ek_hornbeck]

Aren't Assyrian the group that contributed the intellectual illusion to Arab claims of achievement?

Actually, a lot of achievements attributed to Arabs in mathematics, astronomy, classical scholarship, etc. was actually the work of Persians (Iranians). A good case in point is Omar Khayam. They're just called "Arabs" because when Persia adopted Islam, the people adopted Arab names.

[tbw2]

Islam conquered the Persian civilization and then claimed all of its intellectual achievements as its own; and “Muslim” civilization of the last 800-1200s were the flowering of Persian thought and Iraqi civilization through cultural exchange until it converted wholly to Islam, suffocating it.