"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 20:43:08 -0400, "Justin Case"
> <Thinhthi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
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>>"534@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <rtte4353@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>news:g4eh3u$o09$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> The tiling in medieval Islamic architecture turns out to embody a
>>> mathematical insight that Westerners thought they had discovered only
30
>>> years ago.
>>>
>>> http://www.newsweek.com/id/36281
>>Medieval Arabic (not Islamic) architecture was indeed great.
>>Unfortunately,
>>the rise of the Islamic religion is in direct pro****tion to the decline
of
>>Arab culture and peoples. So much so that today, Arab culture has
>>advanced
>>little since the year 1000. The only Arab countries which have advanced
>>are
>>the ones embracing Western thought.
>
> No. The rise in Islamic fundamentalism, not the Islamic religion per
> se which progressed and coexisted with science and engineering until
> the fundamentalists gained control round about the time Europe was
> starting to emerge from the Christian dark ages.
Islamic fundamentalism? One cannot be a Muslim unless one adheres to what
we consider Muslim fundamentalism. The Islamic religion demands adherence
to both good and bad qualities of human conduct.
>
> Before that they had made great strides in science. Just look at all
> the al-words: alkali, alcohol (from al-kuhl which was an antiseptic
> powder that gave its name to alcohol via "the alcohol of wine" which
> was also a simple antiseptic), Algol, Aldebaran and other stars.
What has the Arab world given to the world since the 14th century?
Remember, how long did it take Christianity to fully affect European
thinking?
>
> Algebra - while this has Babylonian origins the word is Arabic,
> showing that they knew it when the Christian world didn't..
>
> Also the number zero. Again, I don't think they originated it, it
> possibly came from India. But they knew it when the Christian world
> didn't.
>
> They were also brilliant hydraulic engineers, using the energy from
> flowing rivers to drive pumps to raise the water, often in several
> stages.
>
> They also had scholar****p and knew the Greek learning which was
> rediscovered in Spanish libraries after the Moors were expelled.
>
> All of which died out in the Islamic world when the fundamentalists
> took over.
>
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