aegor-bamfsteel:

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kyraneko:

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gettysburgaddress:

inoue-takehiko:

evilscum:

deenoverdami:

I want you all to know that an Arab Muslim from Tunis proposed the Theory of Evolution near 600 years before Charles Darwin even took his first breath. Don’t let them erase you.

his name is Ibn Khaldun

Also, it was not the apple falling from a tree that made Issac Newton “discover” gravity. He was reading the books of Ibn Al Haytham, an Arab Muslim from Iraq, who pioneered the scientific method, discovered gravity and wrote about the laws governing the movement of bodies (now known as Newtons three laws of motion) some 600 years before Newton existed. Without him, modern science as we know it wouldn’t exist. Read on him. His achievements are far greater than what I’ve just mentioned here.

#no offense but arabs literally invented chemistry and algebra and we came up with the concept of the camera #the cataract operation that’s still practiced today was invented by an Arab #we created alchemy and the wright brothers used abbas ibn firnas’ findings and writings to build on to create a plane #I could go on and on and on #pls don’t erase our scientific history

I reblog this post every time I see it

We fucking replaced a Muslim scientist with an apple?

In the middle ages, THE place to go for an education was the middle East, or, failing that, Spain. The Muslim world didn’t have the same limits placed on scientific inquiry that the Christian world did, and since they were willing to look at more than just Aristotole and actually compare texts to the observable world, they had some incredible scientific and mathematical advancements. And street lights and toilets. I mean theories and algebra are great and all, but street lights and toilets. In the 12th century. Also medical advancements, and fewer rules against women studying. Hell, women *should* be the ones studying the female body, would you rather a woman see your female relatives, or some old man? Would you rather have someone who lives in the same kind of body, or one who has no first hand idea what the parts can do?

Can we just add that many leading scientists, mathematicians, and doctors from the “Muslim World” during this time were Sephardim and Mizrahi Jewish people? The Rambam (known better to Gentiles by his Greek name Maimonides) was an Aristotelian scholar who influenced and was influenced by his Arab contemporaries. Jewish scholars in general were key in translating texts from Arabic into Latin because it is a requirement to be able to read prayers in one’s native language. Let it also not be forgotten that Moorish culture (poetry, science, mathematics) was at its height during the Almoravid dynasty, when the Muslim rulers were far more accepting of Jewish people in positions of power (one served as unofficial treasurer to the Spanish caliphate, as a Muslim colleague got the official title); the establishment of the Almohads in Spain coincided with the caliphate’s decline both culturally, territorially, and in terms of tolerance. Don’t erase Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewish scientific and literary contribution and oppression in medieval Middle East/North Africa/Spain in to prop up the idea of a more advanced “Muslim world.”

Yo so una serfardina, i esto orguyosa de mis antepasados.