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Not even. Firstly, it came from the Hindu world; which again, islams only success was conquering regions giving them access to that information. Secondly, the man who 'gave it to the rest of the world': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi
.. was, can you guess? He was either not a muslim at all, or was a first generation convert.
egarding al-Khwārizmī's religion, Toomer writes:
Another epithet given to him by al-Ṭabarī, "al-Majūsī," would seem to indicate that he was an adherent of the old Zoroastrian religion. This would still have been possible at that time for a man of Iranian origin, but the pious preface to al-Khwārizmī's Algebra shows that he was an orthodox Muslim, so al-Ṭabarī's epithet could mean no more than that his forebears, and perhaps he in his youth, had been Zoroastrians.
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Not even. Firstly, it came from the Hindu world; which again, islams only success was conquering regions giving them access to that information. Secondly, the man who 'gave it to the rest of the world': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi
.. was, can you guess? He was either not a muslim at all, or was a first generation convert.
egarding al-Khwārizmī's religion, Toomer writes:
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Holy shit, this is great news. I'll definitely look into this some more. Holy fucking shit A MAGI. Fuck the islamic barbarians that removed them.