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When you discover your education erased entire civilizations from science history

I keep reading about how Islamic scholars preserved Greek knowledge during the Dark Ages and I feel angry that my engineering professors never mentioned this once in four years of school.

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The realization that one's foundational understanding has been deliberately narrowed creates a crisis of intellectual trust.

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“Where Are You with Islamic and Arab contributions to science and technology — historical?”

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