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It's hard to recall that Islamic civilization was once far ahead of Western civilization. Early in Islamic history Arab conquests took them into captured libraries full of Greek philosophy, science, mathematics and culture and Islamic intellectual life expanded suddenly and exponentially. Many seminal works the West claims today as its own originally arrived as translations from Arabic. The numbers we use today, "Arabic" (actually Indian) numerals came in on a tide of Arabic words like algebra and algorithm. Arab civilization in the 10th seemed to have a bright future. Then, in the 11th century Islam reversed course. The pendulum swung so far away from the rationalism of Greek philosophy it never came back.
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There is actually zero reason to believe that the achievements of Islamic civilization in science and art came on account of Islam (just like there's zero reason to believe that scientific advances in Christian-majority countries are driven by Christianity, or that Israel's leadership in many high-tech fields is driven by Judaism.)  Civilizations rise and falls. It's the nature of things. [/quote]

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