Anyway,
The last of the BBC part III wasn't so good. I don't understand why the presenter suddenly veers off to the right?
This also bugs me. When it comes to Galileo he is a Polish Scientist doing Science. When he refers to a Persia Astronomer all of a sudden it's Islamic Science. It's as if this sort of mentality is pounded so deeply in his head he can't see his own biases. Unless Galileo was doing Christian Astronomy then the Persian Scientists were not doing Islamic Science - but Science. They were Persian Astronomers, not Muslim Astronomers. Newton was extremely religious. No one in their right mind would refer to him as a Christian Mathematician and I have NEVER heard of Calculus refereed to as Christian Math.
yeah, but, that's because it was all one civilisation, built from many civilisation in one, all mixed in one, you can't say that civilisation, cause, all were mixed, in what is called, the islmaic civilisation, inlike toaday, or the later modern ages, we no longer use the term muslim invetion, for example, it was there a univercity guy in tunisia that inveted new mathemathical equations, we don't say a muslim invetion in maths, we say a tunisian invention in maths, also in those days of newtow for example, we would sayfor that country,
as for the muslim civilisation at that time, many civilisations and culutures were one, like, a civilisation called "islamique" forget that you know what islamique or muslim means, consider it a name
He does make a good point that Europeans liked to denigrate and make Middle Eastern achievements appear as if they had occurred long long ago. Even if some of those achievements were relatively recent. Of course, it should be noted that ALL conquerors come up with some sort of justification for stealing and occupying other people's lands. From Ancient Chinese or Egyptians all the way up to Iraq or Tibet. Including Arabs when they conquered Persia.
well, yeah, can you explain it more? more simply,

Another point, it seems many if not most of the Scientists were Persian. A few were Arab. That's interesting to me. Because these are ethnicity. That's probably the reason why they're often refereed to as Muslim. Because, they probably never were united. Even under religion it appears that Persians never accepted the occupation of their land. They invented Shia Islam after all. As well as Baha'i Faith. I think to be consistent, if you're going to refer to a Galileo as a Polish Scientist then you should refer to the Muslim scientists as either Persian, Ottoman, Arab, etc... OR Middle Eastern - that would go a long way towards clearing that mess up.
well, you got a very good point, in the muslim civilisation, there were many eras, different kings, and, different educational hubes, and different scientific hubes by time, like the baghda libaray, wich christians burned it all in their crusaded, also in egypt, also in Kairouan, knowing that Kairouan toaday, (the old city side) is tooooo small considering to how it was before the christian crusades and the previous eras of collaption, also it was there spain, and they called it "andalos", so, like different ages
also, most inventors weren't persians, also weren't arabs, you can't say most or least, cause all gave alot of inventions and improvements, also, the arabian race, don't exist, at least it's genes still exists in all of us, the real arabs are who lived in the middle east, at the arabian desert, thousand year ago, and before, those were the pure arabs, cause, before islam, the arabs were very carefull not to mixe with other races, they wanted to keep their original race, also, after islam, the arabian tribes, started to mixe, cause islam called for mixation, and to be opened on other tribes, and nations, anyway, by time, the original arabian race, started to disippear, so tecknickly, toaday,we're not arabs, but we're ashes from arabs.
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Arab empire, hmm, i'm not very good at history, but it was there alot of scientists that who are from kairouan, in the last ages, i readed something about them in an article in a magazine when kairouan was the arabian muslim culture capital for 2009, there was many that originated from kairouan,
i can tell scientists names, arabs ones, and you can see their invetions:
ibn sina
al-Jazari
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/301961/al-Jazari
here's a link:
http://www.grouporigin.com/clients/qatarfoundation/chapter2_5.htm
about "arab" as you wanted, but i couldnt give you alot of links since all of them are sai muslim civlisation's inventions,