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=> The Great Arabs

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Tuesday, April 15 2008, 2:15:28 (CEST)
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Any way you want to cut it, the Arabs became a great people. After all, the Amorites of Hammurabi were once mere tent-dwellers.

Whether the Arabs invented anything (did the Assyrians?) or simply knew what to value and preserve and advance, it's undeniable that without them the Classical World would have died a Christian martyrdom and the Dark Ages might have continued forever with no hint of a Modern Europe or world.

Militarily there has never been, not in all recorded history, such a rapid and complete success. In only 100 years the Arabs moved out from their desert outpost to defeat the Roman and Persian empires, spreading their culture and taking with them the greatest refinements of the ancient world, all the way across north Africa to Spain, coming within a hair of moving into France and further north. They remained in Spain for 700 years bringing their section of the country advancement and civilization such as no one in Europe was even vaguely familiar with...and when their rule was ended, they managed to enrich and fecundate all of Christian Europe by lifting the people out of ignorance and supersitition through the arts and sciences they pioneered...on top of that the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, which profited heavily from classical Greek culture preserved and transmitted thanks to Muslim Caliphs, brought Greek scholars and artists flooding Europe and Italy especially where they heralded the rise of the glorious Renaissance which spread to England and France and eventually around the world....and their impact was felt in the New World when Spanish Conquistadors, carrying 700 years worth of Arab blood and culture with them, crossed the ocean to take root and grow.

If the Arabs should, therefore, feel a justifiable pride in their achievements, it's hardly to be wondered at. However, such feelings of racial pride or superiority have been nicely tempered by Islam, which insists that all men are brothers and all women sisters. But if they wanted to....they could certainly justify feeling pride in such a magnificent achievement.

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