re: #848 nikis-knight

You miss the point. The great marvels of science that Islam is touted for comes from the conquered peoples before they were fully islamicized, not from those raised or willingly coverted to Islam, the followers of which did not achieve what is often attributed to them.

That’s the arguement, anyway, I can’t say I have evidence of it, but the present state of affairs certainly makes it credible.

And I referred to evidence to the contrary when I cited how so many starts came to have Arabic names. Granted that was a rather oblique reference, so I’ll do a little better for you.

From Islamic Science

Another common feature during the Islamic Golden Age was the large number of Muslim polymaths or “universal geniuses”, scholars who contributed to many different fields of knowledge. Muslim polymaths were known as “Hakeems” and they had a wide breadth of knowledge in many different fields of religious and secular learning, comparable to the later “Renaissance Men”, such as Leonardo da Vinci, of the European Renaissance period. Polymath scholars were so common during the Islamic Golden Age that it was rare to find a scholar who specialized in any single field at the time.[37] Notable Muslim polymaths included al-Biruni, al-Jahiz, al-Kindi, Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi, Ibn Sina, al-Idrisi, Ibn Bajja, Ibn Zuhr, Ibn Tufayl, Ibn Rushd, al-Suyuti[38] Geber, al-Khwarizmi, the Banū Mūsā, Abbas Ibn Firnas, al-Farabi, al-Masudi, al-Muqaddasi, Alhacen, Omar Khayym, al-Ghazali, al-Khazini, Avempace, al-Jazari, Ibn al-Nafis, Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī, Ibn al-Shatir, Ibn Khaldun, and Taqi al-Din, among many others

Most of this at a time when Western science resembled that scene from, “Monty Python And The Holy Grail.”