Anonymous #2 1w

Yaaa

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Anonymous #1 1w

We both are 🤝

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Anonymous OP 1w

Is this a Muslim thing? Like low key the look or the desire for knowledge and books??

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Anonymous #3 1w

Lowkey when Europe was busy slaughtering itself and dying of plague the Islamic world was making scientific discoveries! And a lot of the texts we have from Ancient Greece aren’t actually translated from the Greek originals; the Greek originals were preserved by the Arabs, the originals were then lost, and then the texts were re-translated from Arabic!

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Anonymous #3 1w

Yeah technically God mandates us to seek out knowledge, idk if every person who says they follow Islam necessarily exemplifies that as best as we could, but it is an obligation as per the religion. There’s also a lot of emphasis on scholarship, so like one person publishing 100+ books isn’t all that special historically. Learning is also a good way to humble one’s self & reflect on the divine. Here’s a short article that goes over this stuff if you’re interested in more specificity:

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Anonymous #3 1w

https://simplyislam.academy/blog/seeking-knowledge-in-islam

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Anonymous #5 1w

Tbf the Islamic world back then had its own albeit smaller share of slaughtering and plague back then too. Yeah there were a lot of important classical texts kept alive & improved upon by the translation movement, but also a lot of novel foundational work too! I feel like you’d be interested in this article delving into the history of how that work was systematically covered up in the west ngl: https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/islamic-science-and-the-west-a-case-of-collective-amnesia

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Anonymous #3 1w

I asked because I noticed Arabic on the spines of the book

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Anonymous #2 1w

Sharp eyes!

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Anonymous #4 1w

Broadly true

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Anonymous #6 1d

There’s gotta be a robot or something for that by now

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