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you have a fixed mindset on history. you think that advances happen through sheer willpower and the (fixed) iq of a group of people, which is not the case. europe was blessed by the new world, the renaissance, martin luther, successful revolutions etc (just as the ummayads and abbasids were blessed with greek texts, a leader who didn't deem them blasphemous, etc). going even deeper, all of them have their own reasons for happening, something like a butterfly effect (if you've read the book outliers you'll know what i'm talking about). look at modern day iran, or look at north africa today. they have their own reasons for being shitholes (outside influence on arab spring, bad leadership, failed revolutions etc) and it'd be unwise to think of them less 200 years from now because they didn't leave anything significant behind.Who? None of them developed the sciences otherwise Europe wouldve been conquered, but you were always catch-up with Europe.
They were mostly Persians. What about Berbers? Cordoba mogged Constantinople nigga.
the same is true for us, just as the romans and byzantines didn't leave any significant accomplishments behind, neither have we. it's not that we didn't try to, it's that there were specific circumstances that didn't allow us to accomplish great things just as some circumstances allowed us to be a giant empire.
my point is, boasting about addasib or umayyad accomplishments means fuck all when it didn't have much to do about them in the first place. you're trying so hard to paint islam as a religion that endorses science and that's innovative, when the difference in innovation between the ottomans and the abbasids was the lack of the house of wisdom (a higher source of information that's not islam) and many other factors. cordoba didn't mog constantinople, cordoba mogged dark age europe and reneaissance europe mogged the ottomans.When ancient Greeks were ripping off ancient Egyptians, Indians and Mesopotamians too. Who cares?
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