Ghazali, in his book, “The savior from Straying” (المنقذ من الضلال), states his position towards the math and philosophy, using this preface :
“There may occur negative points from the mathematics:
When someone starts to learn it, step by step, he will be interested in philosophies, and he will think that all other matters will be as clear as the math, so, when he sees the unhallowed speaking of the philosophers from the others, unintentionally, he will start to obey the unhallowed behavior of the philosophers, and will say: if the religion was right, so these great scholars would follow it, and when he hears that they (philosophers) deny the religion, he will say that the right path is to reject the religion…”
After a detailed discussion, he concludes that :
“To prevent ones from this big risk, we should prevent student from studying the mathematics. Although this knowledge (math) is not related to the religion directly, but because it is the starting point to getting stray, it (math) is forbidden.”
Algebra was invented by Greeks, Babylonians, Indians, and Chinese. Al-Khwarizmi who was the father of algebra actually modified and translated the works of Greeks, Babylonians and Indians, and he was not an Arab, he was a Khwarizmian from Greater Persia
he also popularized indian numeral system, nowadays 1234567890 are known to be hindu arabic numerals but they are actually hindu numerals , the only way “arabs” contributed to it was mass producing research.
i am not saying arabs didn’t contribute to science it’s just pan-arabist and isalmist propaganda to say modern numbers and algebra are due to arabic/islamic impact
Positional decimal notation including a zero symbol was developed in India, using symbols visually distinct from those that would eventually enter into international use
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Al-Ghazali forbade math.
Ghazali, in his book, “The savior from Straying” (المنقذ من الضلال), states his position towards the math and philosophy, using this preface :
“There may occur negative points from the mathematics:
When someone starts to learn it, step by step, he will be interested in philosophies, and he will think that all other matters will be as clear as the math, so, when he sees the unhallowed speaking of the philosophers from the others, unintentionally, he will start to obey the unhallowed behavior of the philosophers, and will say: if the religion was right, so these great scholars would follow it, and when he hears that they (philosophers) deny the religion, he will say that the right path is to reject the religion…”
After a detailed discussion, he concludes that :
“To prevent ones from this big risk, we should prevent student from studying the mathematics. Although this knowledge (math) is not related to the religion directly, but because it is the starting point to getting stray, it (math) is forbidden.”
This way, he forbade the math.
You never questioned why Algebra has an Arabic name OP?
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Algebra was invented by Greeks, Babylonians, Indians, and Chinese. Al-Khwarizmi who was the father of algebra actually modified and translated the works of Greeks, Babylonians and Indians, and he was not an Arab, he was a Khwarizmian from Greater Persia
he also popularized indian numeral system, nowadays 1234567890 are known to be hindu arabic numerals but they are actually hindu numerals , the only way “arabs” contributed to it was mass producing research.
i am not saying arabs didn’t contribute to science it’s just pan-arabist and isalmist propaganda to say modern numbers and algebra are due to arabic/islamic impact
What?
Literally, what?
They’re literally called Arabic numbers…
Who calls them “Indian numbers”? I’ve legitimately never heard that phrase…
There was East Arabic numbers before Arabic, but that isn’t what was used for algebra and not what you use now. We use Arabic numbers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system
Which is the same as modern day Iran and the surrounding Arabic countries…
No, it’s literally what the dominant number system is called…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
Where are you getting your information from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals#Origin
That’s not exactly what they said…
But I have to guess what you’re talking about.