A subterranean world of water offers a glimpse of Ramla’s past

Post by Xeoncross » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 12:24 AM UTC

cjcenizal wrote: post #18

This article reminds me of a book written by Kim Stanley Robinson, "The Years of Rice and Salt". It's a historical fiction which explores a history in which the bubonic plague wiped out Europe, precluding Western civilization as we know it. The cultural and religious vacuum left behind is filled by Islam, Buddhism, and the Chinese dynasties. Robinson explores the evolution of humanity over the next 600 years under th…

Post by ocschwar » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 2:21 AM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #49

ocschwar wrote: post #38

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Israeli Jew here. And I think that's a bit unfair. There's a critical difference between Islam and Christianity, and it bears nothing, because without grasping this detail you can't really give Islam a fair understanding. Secularism in the Christian World is the result of peacemaking after the Wars of Religion. It's 1648, you want Christians to stop killing each other. Since this involves a religion whose followers e…

> and it bears nothing and it bears noting?

Post by jlebrech » Fri, Mar 10, 2017, 9:52 AM UTC

zeveb wrote: post #40

truetraveller wrote: post #17

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Note: I'm not taking sides, but just trying to be factual. This is very misleading. It was, in fact, Islam that was the cause of the 'golden age'. The Arabs existed for centuries with ~nil progress. If you notice, almost 99% of the inventors were Muslims, and based on their writings, dedicated ones.

I think it's fairer to say that the conquest of developed (Byzantine) Romans & Farsis by the newly-Islamic Arabs enabled the conquerors to reap the fruits of antiquity.