>>255608
While this is absolutely true, it also goes a different route anon : how many of those prodigees are safe in their countries? Do you have any idea how many things they do and say are not only apocryphal in their backwater societies, they also make the Spanish Inquisition look like a walk in the park when they put these prodigies in prisons for "wrongthink"?
>>255611
Not talking about the Aramites and the egyptians anon, of course, those dudes had civilization long before the Arabs even started understanding that you don't eat sand. I'm talking about actual arabs back in the 10th century or so, where they would make some pretty interresting progress in their countries, often traveling outside and returning with nice gifts, only to be stone for daring to bring "uncleaned filth" from the lands beyond Allah's mercy. At least as far as I remember, I'll have to check again.
I do remember that some anatolian group also held pretty tightly on the old copies of various ancient greek and ancient roman texts along with some copies from the Alexandrian library that they then sold to the monasteries over the catholic lands., mostly in Italy. And whenever they tried to translate any of those copies, they got found out and got stoned.