polite_gandalf wrote on Jul 1
st, 2013 at 10:21pm:
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Soren wrote on Jun 3
rd, 2013 at 8:57pm:
The Arab rulers harnessed the learning of the conquered Romans, Christians and Jews, very selectively.
There was no translation into Arabic of anything that may have conflicted with Islam - which left out all of ancient literature and philosophy. And the translators were the conquered Christians and Jews, not the invading Arabs.
- The arabs translated a
HUGE amount of ancient literature and philosophy. Also, the "invading Arabs" absolutely did much of the translating themselves.
The Arabs were the master race, the conquerors. They didn't learn Greek or Latin or Hebrew or Syriac or Persian or Hindi, the languages of the dhimmis. No. The dhimmis learned Arabic and did the translations. Some converted, many didn't.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq - Christian
Yuhanna ibn Masawaih - native Syriac speaker (ie not Arab)
Sa'id al-Fayyumi - Jew
Thābit ibn Qurrah - native Syriac speaking Assyrian
Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus - Nestorian Christian (translator of Aristotle's works into Arabic)
Yuhanna Ibn Batriq, Abd al-Masih Ibn 'Aballah Wa'ima al-Himse - Assyrian Christians
Abu Mahammad Ibn al-Muqaff - Persian convert to Islam.
You are being fooled by the Arabised names- Abu Al-
Gandalf.