certain aspects predated the prophet.
Now you're tying in cultural advances to "the prophet".
Would a liberal use the phrase "the Christ"? No, but they will use "the prophet".
But much of what we think of algebra comes from the Muslims.
Especially the name.
Like with astronomy. Or, even economics. Don't try to belittle what they did for political reasons.
Don't try to exaggerate what they did for political reasons. Certainly there were impressive Islamic scholars in many fields 1000 years ago, but that hardly makes Islam a force for modernity, then or now. The Islamic Golden Age occurred because the Muslims conquered civilizations more advanced than the Arabs and it took a long time for those civilization to decline. Unfortunately, most of the Muslim world has actually gone backwards culturally for centuries from what they were 1000 years ago. Do you know how common cousin marriage is in many Muslim communities - Pakistan as well as the Arab worlds? Nearly half of marriages of Pakistanis are to cousins. Its an Arab tribal custom, like honor killings of women who "shame" the family and female circumcision, that has been passed on to peoples who were more advanced before they were Islamized.
They clotheslined by the 13th century. When Christianity started to learn from the real world, the only model was the islamic one.
Certainly western Christian scholars learned from Islamic scholars and everyone else they could. Including Byzantine refugees from the Islamic conquest - which stimulated the cultural flowering known to history as the Renaissance:
The migration of Byzantine Greek scholars and other emigres from Byzantium during the decline of the Byzantine empire (1203-1453) and mainly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 16th century, is considered by modern scholars as crucial in the revival of Greek and Roman studies, arts and sciences, and subsequently in the formation of Renaissance humanism.[1] These emigres were grammarians, humanists, poets, writers, printers, lecturers, musicians, astronomers, architects, academics, artists, scribes, philosophers, scientists, politicians and theologians.[2]
They became particularly famous for teaching the Greek language to their western counterparts in universities or privately. Many brought Ancient Greek texts with them which were copied, later printed, and disseminated across Europe.
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