RE:Quran was copied !!!
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:04 AM Permalink
What is has to do with Quran copying???As to the copying of mathematics - Can you answer this question first? Arabic was the language of science for 1000 years and thats why books from other languages and other countries got translated to arabic. When there is a center of intellectual activity,it is only natural that this happens!!!
why earth Indian number system has to go through Arabs? why on earth all the so called Greek knowldge has to be translated to arabic and then to Latin? Is Arabia very near to London that Greece?
Why no books were directly translated from sanskrit to chinnese..or sanskrit to greek? It is simple-Arabic was the language of science and thats why it took that route..
I am not excluding the contribution of great minds of India -How ever it is the universality of Islam which made the flow o knowledge from east to west and every where..
RE:RE:Quran was copied !!!
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:17 AM Permalink
If you are not satisfied then here you have Mathematical Associatio of america-s website
maa.org/devlin/devlin_0708_02.html ....As mathematicians, we are all children of Islam...
RE:RE:RE:Quran was copied !!!
by Gyan Vedi on Apr 02, 2008 09:37 AM Permalink
THIS IS ALSO FROM BALAORD'S ARTICLE:
The concept of zero reached medieval Europe through the Arab nations who had probably learned of it from ancient Hindu and Chinese cultures. Prior to this Europe struggled with a system of Roman numerals, in which large numbers would consist of huge strings of letters. Once zero was incorporated, numbers took on the more manageable decimal system that we use today.
THIS CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THE VERY DECIMAL CONCEPT USED FOR SCIENCE WAS FROM HINDU FOUNDATIONS ...
in fact, the works of early indian astronomers use the decimal system for counting !
RE:RE:Quran was copied !!!
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:19 AM Permalink
Nothing novel?and thats why you feel Times magazine calls Al-Jazari the father of modern engineering?
RE:Quran was copied !!!
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:14 AM Permalink
you dont have to take the trouble of sending me book links-Yu hear what the most authoritative voice on Maths say Here is the confession from europe-s leading mathematical body-School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews Scotland
This is what it says ... ...Recent research paints a new picture of the debt that we owe to Arabic/Islamic mathematics.Certainly many of the ideas which were previously thought to have been brilliant new conceptions due to European mathematicians of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are now known to have been developed by Arabic/Islamic mathematicians around four centuries earlier. In many respects mathematics studied today is far closer in style to that of the Arabic/Islamic contribution than to that of the Greeks.....
RE:Quran was copied !!!
by Gyan Vedi on Apr 02, 2008 09:36 AM Permalink
LOOK HOW MISLEADING BALAORD IS -
This is what is written in the articles quoted by balaord:
As Islamic civilisation spread further into southern Europe, vast treasuries of long-forgotten knowledge from conquered lands were taken back to cities like Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo and Cordoba where they were translated into Arabic.
This clearly shows that Islamic science was based upon and influenced/translated from earlier works
Let us not then give the credit to Islam alone ! THAT WOULD BE INTELLECTUAL APOSTASY
