/thread the muslim golden age is a false myth on multiple levels: it consisted in mere preservation of greek and roman texts at best (which usually entered west european civilization by other routes anyway); almost all of the great figures of the muslim middle ages/cordoba etc were christians, pupils of christians, jews, or persians/central asians. almost none were arabs, and even aside from their origins, almost none were muslim by belief, but atheist or cryptoatheist (including to be fair the christians and jews i mentioned). aside from a few heretical branches islam is a self conscious vehicle for the darkening of the intellect and accelerated the inner biological meaning of the religions that came out of the near east (to serve as a funnel for africa into eurasia)
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