/lit/ - Literature

>>23464313
>your golden age is made of trying to translate and make sense of greek philosophers
The Islamic Golden Age was much more than that, and I'm suprised that people are so uneducated about it. During the Islamic Golden Age, advancements were made in algebra, optometry, botany, optics, cosmology, astronomy, physics, philosophy, expounding upon the Greeks among others.

In Mathematics, the Arab use of irrational numbers as numbers and the manipulation of variables to find relations between unknowns. Ibn Al-Haytham also developed something very similar to the scientific method in is optics work.

The commentaries of Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd on Aristotle revives Aristotelian thought and would lay the foundation for Western philosophy for years to come.

The idea that the Arabs "stole" or merely "copied" Greek and Indian works show a lack of understanding of the history of science and a lack of actual knowledge about said topic.

All advacements stood on the shoulders of giants. The difference was that the Muslims were honest and praised the Greeks, while the Christians then benefitted from earlier Muslim works while making images of them trampling upon Muslim authors

>>23268065
Catholics even made images of Aquinas trampling on Ibn Rushd, who he benefited from in theology, which is the equivalent of giving yourself a medal.

>>22716527
>Well the Trinity is there from the earliest Christians
I couldn't find any Pre-Nicene Christian writing referring to the Holy Spirit as a person of God, it does not exist in the NT, even the Apochrypha. When I ask Christians, who I assume to be better read in their own religion, they too fail to find any.

If you read Paul and John, you get the sense that maybe the Arians were closer in theology to them instead of the Proto-Orthodox. Paul says "The head of every man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God" and in John, Jesus calls the Father "My God"

>I wouldn’t take Muslim critiques of Christianity too seriously for obvious reasons
Muslim polemics against Christianity was much more rigorous compared to its counterpart. When reading Aquinas, you can just tell he has never met a Muslim in his entire life. And John of Damascus doesn't seriously engage with Muslim theology

>>19641865
>>19641880
The Muslims had worthy philosophers, sure, but they were all BTFO by Aquinas.
picrel.