What's the truth behind the argument of the Islamic golden age and its contributions to Europe in the dark ages? Is it a myth?
>>922892
They translated Aristotle into Latin so the greek illiterate yuropoors could read him. This one act is responsible for the rennisance and enlightenment in Europe. If you read any major treatise of the periods, they respond directly to Aristotle's theories.
>>922892
It isn't a myth but due to just how fucking long the time period was we really don't know how exact anything was.
What we DO know was that much of the muslim world had a strong intellectual tradition that led to those places becoming safe havens for pretty much everybody who needed a safe haven. This tradition was later echoed in the modern Ottoman Empire's high level of tolerance and acceptance towards outsiders.
We also know that the crusaders' experiencing of then-superior Muslim culture was a minor factor in kickstarting the renaissance, as it disenfranchised many of the wealthy Europeans who bankrolled by the Crusades with European lifestyle.
>>922892
While the Dark Ages is a myth, the Islamic Golden Age and its intellectuals was part of the some proto-"republic of letters" that stretched from Medieval Europe to Islamic East in which scholarly cunts regularly took copies of each other's works/translations and built from there.
People tend to underestimate how interconnected intellectuals were, thinking that everyone was like some medieval peasant tied to the land.
Muslim Scholars regularly got Latinshit from Medieval Scholars while in turn Medieval Scholars got Greekshit from Muslims. The exchange was even higher during the crusades.
Largely a myth. Some muslims contributed to localized translations of the classics, but Europeans were doing the same. Their theories held some sway, pending on the matter but very little.
>>922905
Weren't the greek philosophy almost get destroyed by the chruch during the middle ages ?
How did muslim obtain it ?
>>922919
>Implying that algebra originally come from greek
>>922918
One thing you're forgetting. Aristotle was greekshit unknown to yuropoors. The rediscovery of his work in the West is the single most important part of Western intellectual history of the period.
>>922928
Byzantines.
>>922905
St. Thomas Aquinas translated Aristotle into Latin for Europe. Not denying that Islamic translators were significant, what you're saying simply gives credit to the wrong people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Classics
>>922937
William of Moerbeke did the translations pleb
>>922937
St. Thomas couldn't read Greek. He had a direct translation from Greek to Latin commissioned so he didn't have to rely on a translation mediated by Arabic. His Latin version Aristotle was better than any other because it wasn't translated twice.
