The vast majority of ancient Greek texts were destroyed over the eons, for example, those of the library of Alexandria. A number of ancient Greek libraries were in Muslim hands starting from the 7th century, and almost all of them by 1200 AD. So, it is very hard to figure out which Muslim contributions to mathematics and science were simple extensions or even copies of already existing, but since destroyed, Greek texts, and which were original contributions.
With the above caveat, I do not dispute that Arab Muslims contributed to science and mathematics a millennium or so ago. But given their numbers, their contributions, especially their modern contributions, are pitiful, to put it mildly. Their genes can't be the problem. They are probably very similar to Sephardi Jews. So the problem has got to be their culture and their religion, which is the basis of their culture. |
