Contributions of Arabs to Science

Now, we must strongly emphasize this here.

The contribution of the Arabs to the development of science is tremendous.

- Tremendous. Their disappearance...- You say the Irish,

but actually the Arabs prevented...- Yes.

There is the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

There is a massive translation activity there.

They translate whatever they find,

and most interestingly, for example, Christians are bigoted.

There is censorship in Christianity.

They do not allow certain things. This does not exist among Muslims.

Muslims translate whatever they find.

In Iberia, where today's Spain and Portugal are,

there is an incredible Islamic civilization.

So that's where it actually starts. The Renaissance was starting from there.

Now, where does Thomas Aquinas get his knowledge? He gets it from Iberia.

Because the Arab kingdoms in Iberia, the Islamic kingdom... Islamic states

translate and spread them. Yes, brother.

Toledo is a very important translation center. But also Constantinople. Why?

Didn't they smuggle most of those books out of Constantinople back in the day,

especially during the Latin invasion? No, translations are done in Constantinople,

and then they leave.

But their departure from Constantinople is much later. - So, at the very end,

during Bayezid I...- Later, yes. Later. ... era, they flee and go to Europe.

They take this knowledge to Europe.