ARB 2101 Lecture 6: Arab Science
5 Nov 2018
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In the ninth century, the scientific schools of bagdad began to flourish, while schools in. Europe had to wait several hundred more years to start; those of china and india were declining. Three major sources of arab sciences: greece, india, and persia. The greeks under alexander the great (330 b. c. ) conquered persia, much of india, and all of syria, egypt, and iraq. The greeks stimulated communication in sciences between the mediterranean world and asia. When the arabs conquered the known world in first century of islam, arab educated elites busied themselves at first with mathematics and the medical science. When arab conquests were over, arabs settled down and began cultivation of arts and sciences chiefly in baghdad, capital of the abbasid dynasty. City of jundishapur: the intellectual life of the arabs began after the year 750 during the. The arabs conquered persia but left the city of. Jundishapur in southwest persia, which was a center of learning founded by syrian.
