Posted on 11/06/2007 7:02:15 AM PST by DogByte6RER
‘All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists’
LAHORE: Muslim scientists have made all discoveries of the current age, said University of Columbia’s Arabic and Islamic Studies prof George Saliba at a seminar at the Government College University (GCU) on Monday. The seminar, titled The Problems of Historiography of Islamic Science, was held at Fazl-e-Hussain Hall. Saliba gave a critique of the standard classical accounts of the rise of Islamic science. He detailed problems in the accounts and explained alternative historiography that described the rise of an Islamic scientific tradition as a result of social and political conditions within the nascent Islamic empire. He said Muslim philosophy was the impetus behind Islamic science that had contributed to various disciplines including botany, zoology, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physics, chemistry, physiology and mathematics in the pre-industrial era. He said the use of decimal fractions was not a Western invention and that it was discovered by a Muslim scientist. He said the binary system, on which the computer was based, was also invented by a Muslim scientist. He said Arab/Islamic science was not an intermediary between Greek science and European science, but was rather the Renaissance that integrated the Islamic science with European science. Saliba also visited the English Language and Literature Department where he engaged faculty members in a conversation on the Islamic and Renaissance paradigms. staff report
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That is a direct quote from the article which is not a percentage. I take it to mean 4.4 books per one million Arabs.
Isn't that proof that there is nothing worth translating in the non-møøselimb world?
Well, I guess you could read it that way. I think it represents something else. Any Arab father who wants his children to have a meaningful education most probably sends them out of the country to study in the west. Higher education in the Arab countries is limited to religious indoctrination.
Regards,
GtG
They still haven’t discovered toilet paper.
It should have said:
average number of books translated per 1 million people in the Arab world during the five-year period was 4.4 (less than one book for every million Arabs per year)
Any Arab father who wants his children to have a meaningful education most probably sends them out of the country to study in the west.
There certainly doesn't seem to be any shortage of arabic-as-a-first-language students at any American university.
OTOH, they seem to have that situation well in hand...
He could have been an Middle Eastern Christian that had to flee.
I worked with an Indian doctor for years..I assumed that he was Hindu just because he had 52 letters in his last name.
I met him outside work in a medical travel office getting his inoculations. Was a going on a Christian medical mission.
Islamic comedy..
They learned to cook their food over it! Arghm the aroma!
Glad to be of assistance in righting that wrong.
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