“How Islamic kingdoms acquired Hindu knowledge and labelled as their own”, Myind, July 5, 2023:
“Indian knowledge, specifically Hindu, proved to be a deep ocean of scholarship that was absorbed into Islamic knowledge, either by stealing or by natural adaptation and friendly exchange. The Islamic golden age, if it can be called one, in the 9th century, could not have come without Hindu knowledge. Islamic knowledge later slowly seeped into Europe when Arabs ruled over Spain and triggered the Renaissance in the 15th century.
Hindus can very well claim that the foundation of all the scientific, philosophical, and medical knowledge floating around in the world today was laid by them.
When Arabs were trying to expand their empire in the 8th century in India, they came across the prevalent Hindu numeral system. They adopted it wholesomely after replacing their own rudimentary Arabic numeral system called abjad. In 773 CE, a few Hindu astronomers, the most prominent of whom was Kanka, arrived at the court of Caliph al-Mansur in Baghdad, quickening the process of adaptation of the Hindu numerical system in the Arabic world….”
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