1) The numeric system used in English is called Arabic numeral system. The Arabs claim to have learnt it from the Indians. Great Arab scholar Al Kindi's 4 volumes called Ketab fi Isti'mal al-'Adad al-Hindi (Use of the Indian Numeric system,) discusses this in detail.
2) The use of Mathematics and Chemistry was considered esoteric in Europe. Algebra was considered a fad, and the word "gibberish" may have been a play on the word Algebra.
3) There was a burst of scientific and cultural activities in the Arab world from the 9th Century to 11th Century which in turn is said to have triggered the Western Renaissance.
4) English words such as Algebra, alchemy, alcohol, alkali, were loaned to the language through Arabic scientists. In fact, the word algorithm is a contribution to the Arab mathematician, Al Khwarizmi, his latinised name was Algoritmi. Any famous scientists of Arab origins right now? Here you go!
5) Ibn Battuta from Morocco was the most travelled explorer in the world. In the 14th century he had covered 75,000 miles or more than one lakh kilometres, covering most of the then-known world. He travelled three-folds more than his Western counterpart Marco Polo. For an individual, such amount of travel was effortlessly possible only five centuries later after the invention of steam engines.
6) There were many Arabic scholars who were masters of the classical Sanskrit language. They translated many scholarly work from Sanskrit to Arabic.
7) Many Indian languages such as Marathi, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali have many Arabic words
8) The first recorded usage of the word "Arab" as applied to an ethnicity could be traced back to 9th Century BC or approximately 2900 years ago.
9) One of the greatest Western mathematician, Fibonacci was tutored by Arab mathematicians.
10) Not all Arabs are Muslims, just like all Muslims are not Arabs or just like all Indians are not Hindus. Arab is an ethnicity, with a population of Christianity, Judaism and other such faiths as well.
2) The use of Mathematics and Chemistry was considered esoteric in Europe. Algebra was considered a fad, and the word "gibberish" may have been a play on the word Algebra.
3) There was a burst of scientific and cultural activities in the Arab world from the 9th Century to 11th Century which in turn is said to have triggered the Western Renaissance.
4) English words such as Algebra, alchemy, alcohol, alkali, were loaned to the language through Arabic scientists. In fact, the word algorithm is a contribution to the Arab mathematician, Al Khwarizmi, his latinised name was Algoritmi. Any famous scientists of Arab origins right now? Here you go!
5) Ibn Battuta from Morocco was the most travelled explorer in the world. In the 14th century he had covered 75,000 miles or more than one lakh kilometres, covering most of the then-known world. He travelled three-folds more than his Western counterpart Marco Polo. For an individual, such amount of travel was effortlessly possible only five centuries later after the invention of steam engines.
6) There were many Arabic scholars who were masters of the classical Sanskrit language. They translated many scholarly work from Sanskrit to Arabic.
7) Many Indian languages such as Marathi, Hindi, Urdu and Bengali have many Arabic words
8) The first recorded usage of the word "Arab" as applied to an ethnicity could be traced back to 9th Century BC or approximately 2900 years ago.
9) One of the greatest Western mathematician, Fibonacci was tutored by Arab mathematicians.
10) Not all Arabs are Muslims, just like all Muslims are not Arabs or just like all Indians are not Hindus. Arab is an ethnicity, with a population of Christianity, Judaism and other such faiths as well.
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