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Sunday, November 30, 2003
Why didn't the Scientific Revolution happen in Islam? - Chowk
"Every great civilization writes its own history, selectively extracts data from the past, and then proves to its satisfaction that its greatness has no peer or rival. The dominant civilization of our times, the West, has also defined a vision of cultural and intellectual history wherein the development of science is presented as the unilinear and inexorable march of Greco-Roman ideas into the European Renaissance period. It is only over the last few decades that there has been some widening of perspective, and beginnings of a realization that the roots of science are to be found in highly diverse cultural and temporal origins."
A classic Hoodbhoy piece. I read it a third time today to reactivate some brain cells.
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