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Real question: does anyone have a working theory as to why no real innovation has come out of the Muslim world since the reconquista?

Anonymous 15h

That was the same century the Ottoman Empire started they had plenty

Anonymous 15h

There’s a pretty good study on the invention of the printing press and religious leaders of the various Islamic world intentionally rejecting its adoption so they could maintain their power grip on the illiterate portion of their populations. Also consider the base mental programming appears to be more like “conquest” than “build/invent/compassion for your brothers and sisters through God” It’s said necessity is the precursor for invention. The tools for conquest in that era appeared 1/2

Anonymous

#1 15h

Then it dissolved and the region got mired in backwards fundamentalist movements and Arab nationalism etc

Anonymous

#2 15h

2/2 to be sufficient for the same leaders in various Islamic dominated governments to sustain their positions and expand just enough to make the commoners feel as though they were doing right by Allah, but no additional leaps in technology appeared to be required when horseback permitted the ability to kill at great distances.