04-28-2006, 05:22 PM
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Indian science and heritage are often known as arab in Europe.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The exhibition " The golden age of the Arab science ", which has just closed its doors at "lâInstitut du Monde Arabe (Institut of the Arab World, Paris), tries to present to the French public the importance of what is presented like "an injustice " : " the history of Western sciences " would "have occulted for a long time what it owe to Arab science ".
The topic of the exhibition is simple : the " Arab-Islamic world " would have experienced a " brilliant development of its civilization ", which has been translated in particular by " fulgurating progress in several scientific fields ".
It is clear that a such point is far from the vision we have of this world today. We only see chaos, intellectual misery, corruption, dictatorships, religious fanaticism and economic disaster. We can easily imagine that those who are inhabited by " the Arab-Islamic identity " feel daily wounded when evolving in an environment organized mainly by concepts forged in Occident. Certainly, a majority needs recognition which would be formulated as follows : " we also, we invented, created, innovated ".
In truth, it is necessary to acknowledge that history taught in our schools leans little on the European extra influences which could mark its development. However, major inventions come from elsewhere, forwards by the "Arab-Islamic world". We owe them in particular the techniques which were crucial for the development of mathematics : numbering system, equations of the third degree etc. Without speaking about the other disciplines like astronomy, medicine etc...
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http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.p...rticle=259
Indian science and heritage are often known as arab in Europe.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The exhibition " The golden age of the Arab science ", which has just closed its doors at "lâInstitut du Monde Arabe (Institut of the Arab World, Paris), tries to present to the French public the importance of what is presented like "an injustice " : " the history of Western sciences " would "have occulted for a long time what it owe to Arab science ".
The topic of the exhibition is simple : the " Arab-Islamic world " would have experienced a " brilliant development of its civilization ", which has been translated in particular by " fulgurating progress in several scientific fields ".
It is clear that a such point is far from the vision we have of this world today. We only see chaos, intellectual misery, corruption, dictatorships, religious fanaticism and economic disaster. We can easily imagine that those who are inhabited by " the Arab-Islamic identity " feel daily wounded when evolving in an environment organized mainly by concepts forged in Occident. Certainly, a majority needs recognition which would be formulated as follows : " we also, we invented, created, innovated ".
In truth, it is necessary to acknowledge that history taught in our schools leans little on the European extra influences which could mark its development. However, major inventions come from elsewhere, forwards by the "Arab-Islamic world". We owe them in particular the techniques which were crucial for the development of mathematics : numbering system, equations of the third degree etc. Without speaking about the other disciplines like astronomy, medicine etc...
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http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.p...rticle=259