>Therefore the torrent of Islamocentric academic publications;

>>3336909
According to Thomas Aquinas, the greatest commentator of Aristotle was not some Christian, but Averroes. Clearly, the Christian thinkers of that time very much appreciated the works of Muslim philosophers and the contributions they made to the development of Ancient Greek thought.

>>3337003
*commentator on Aristotle

>>3336909
>if Islam had not interrupted with its military conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries the direct communication between the Christian West and the Christian East.
Does he think the Eastern and Western Europe are divided by North Africa or something? The Byzantines held parts of Italy well into the 11th century. They were in direct communication all the fucking time.

>>3336909
In how far did Islam interrupt communication between Byzantine empire and the West? This guy must have been smoking some good shit.

>>3337032
He probably means the non-Europeans by "East" . The Arabic works were translated from Syriac, not Greek, but the Sassanids may have tried to stop contact between them and the Greeks as well. Some of the works in Syriac and Arabic have not been found in Greek, but the translations were made before the pillaging of the Byzantines. So I haven't seen it explained why there was no knowledge of Greek works to translate them directly, unless the Byzantines were preventing contact themselves.

>>3337073
The West actually knew almost all ancient philosophers during the whole medieval period, it is a meme that they only got in touch with them after 1400. What happened after 1400 is the civil society becoming powerful and rich enough to disobey the church, which all this time tried to surpress any non-christian studies. In Islam a church did not exist, and intellectuals were able to study relaitvely freely.

>>3337094
>which all this time tried to surpress any non-christian studies.
This is kind of a meme in itself in my experience. I recall one attempted book ban on two philosophical commentaries instituted by the Church in the University of Paris in the 1270s, I think, and it was so widely derided and ignored by students, scholars and clergy alike that it was done away with very quickly.