Arabs
Nowadays I feel that their is a sort of antipathy towards Arab-Americans after the terrorist attacks on 9-11 by arab terrorists just like their was a resentment toward Japanese-Americans 60 years ago after the attacks on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan.. But people do not realize the great contributions arab and muslim civilization has made in history. When they hear the word Arab, they think terrorist, turbon or even 7-11. But they are more than that. In the year 700, Islam and the Arabic language were on the move. Soon their influence would stretch from India to Spain. Europe was entering its Dark Ages, nursing its dwindling links to a dead Roman culture. Arabic scholarship, science and invention surpassed Europe in every way. Arabic scholars would soon include Greeks, Persians, Indians, Africans, Christians, Jews and more. Every Arab and muslim was obliged to pursue knowledge in all its forms. They endeavoured to acquire the knowledge of previous civilizations by obtaining Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Chinese, Farsi
mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi. When translated translations into Latin. For centuries, the fundamental texts decimal system to a Europe still muddling with Roman numerals. thousand years. The language of algebra and the concept of zero whole Pantheon of Greek learning and art into Arabic, and We learned "our" Greek heritage by translating the Arabic
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Pantheon Greek,
English Europe,
Translating Arabic,
Arabian Nights,
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Empire Japan,
Jews Arab,
Dark Ages,
Church Church,
Arabs Leibniz,
translating arabic,
arabic translations,
learning art,
greek learning,
decimal system,
greek learning art,
arab muslim,
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