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A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History

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StackOverlord wrote: post #88
dang wrote: post #75

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" Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. " " Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. " " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Then make sure nobody from Eglin Air Force Base posts on here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit...

I'm not quite sure I get your angle but HN users are as welcome from Eglin Air Force Base as from anywhere else, as long as they're using the site as intended. Why shouldn't they be interested in pedestrian footbridges in Minneapolis? (to mention one darling of the moment)

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Post by mikhailfranco »

ssttoo wrote: post #89
adrian_b wrote: post #16

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A part of the ancient Latin and Greek literature has been preserved by the Byzantine Empire and another part by the Arabs. The Arabs actually had much more interactions with the Western Europeans than the latter had with the Byzantines, so much more old books have reached Europe through the Arabs. Most Byzantine books have reached Europe only after the Fall of Constantinople and the invention of the movable-type prin…

> words like alchemy and algebra And “algorithm” too, named after the scientist Al-Khwarizmi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

What US state takes its name from the Arabic title for a ruler?

Alabama?

Good guess, but no, it's California from Khalifa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_California

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Post by xhkkffbf »

jmyeet wrote: post #48

A podcaster I listen to said something that stuck with me. He doesn’t care who invented the light bulb. That would’ve happened anyway. What’s way more interesting is events that could’ve completely changed human history. Like if Julius Caesar lost in Gaul or the Persians had defeated the Greeks or the Mongols had invaded Europe. On that list had to be what if Islam had spread throughout Europe? It very much could’ve…

I believe that Henry the Eighth was talking with some of the Muslim calliphates in Northern Africa around the time he broke from Rome. He could have gone Islamic but decided to set up his own church instead. Who knows how it would have worked out if he chose differently.

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Post by 29athrowaway »

tdba wrote: post #83
29athrowaway wrote: post #52

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Yes. But we stopped studying the Greeks for a long time and had no paper. So we could not distribute copies of Greek works until paper was introduced here, and until we had those copies. That trend, that lasted a long time, ended with the help of the Islamic civilization influence, with the arrival of paper and translated copies of the works you are talking about. They were studying them. We were not. Our copies come…

Our scientific tradition is a direct continuation of theirs A big influence for sure, but that claim is a stretch. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_books#Middle_Ages

Not a stretch. Follow the chain of doctoral advisors.
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