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Re: OT: needed: witty facts re: positive aspects of Islamic culture

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 3:51
Hanuman Zhang wrote:
> > Yes, but still it is a good summation, giving credit to the Spanish >Moors who did "give" the Europeans the Hindu number system as they modified >it
Along with much else. Via Spain they/Islam passed on the heritage of the Greek (and to some extent Roman) world, which they'd acquired after taking over the bulk of the Byzantine empire (the Middle East, Persia and North Africa). Some hold that the knowledge transmitted through Spain was the initial spark of the Renaissance-- though a lot also came thanks to a) the _Christian_ 4th Crusaders, mainly a gang of Franks, who sacked Constantinople in 1204, causing a lot of scholars to pack up their scrolls and go west and b) the Turks conquest of same in 1453, which caused even more scholars to pack up and head west.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>