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minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoI mean, they all wrote in Arabic, and Ibn Hayyan was an Arab.
minus-squareMalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoYa that’s kinda what I’m trying to get at. Like Latin, Arabic was useful and so it was used. If such Latin erased them then arguably such Arabic equally erased them. Or maybe there was no erasure but instead pragmatism 🤷♀️
I mean, they all wrote in Arabic, and Ibn Hayyan was an Arab.
Ya that’s kinda what I’m trying to get at. Like Latin, Arabic was useful and so it was used.
If such Latin erased them then arguably such Arabic equally erased them. Or maybe there was no erasure but instead pragmatism 🤷♀️