I'm honestly unsure whether you mean the Persian influence on modern civilisation, or the Arabic one, overall?
Influence on what? Language? Politics? Economics? Religion, Medicine, science, culture, art, literacy, food, human rights? Did the influence last long?
Hindu-Arabic numerals weren't confined to the middle ages, but Europeans only heard of them through Arabic mathematicians & astronomers, for example. Plus, not all Arabs are Muslim, and most Muslims don't speak Arabic, so I'm also wondering what culture & when, you actually mean, when you write "Arab"? Leading a bedouin life? Although they say that people didn't travel far then? Does it matter whether those influences lasted thru' to current times? So that we now would be familiar with them?
Influential people were rich & powerful once. Most Europeans weren't then. Has that changed?
And I don't know what you mean by medieval. When exactly in the Middle Ages? Or are you only concerned with one age, and which one? Are you supposed to contrast that influence with, say, the Greek heritage? Or the Latin or Roman one?
Do you mean in mainland Europe, the continent? I'm more familiar with the islands, who would have traded with other cultures, but would have had solid bases in other cultures.
Portuguese, Spanish & Italian has a lot of words derived from Arabic, and they filtered through to English.
I think you should do some research here, because that was a vague question which gives you lots of room to explore the issues.
2006-12-11 12:36:12
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answered by WomanWhoReads 5
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Pretty so much the complete subject of arithmetic is centered at the paintings of Islamic students. That's why we use Arabic numerals, and feature many traditional phrases centered on Arabic roots (i.e. 0, azimuth, algebra) in our math. The value of arithmetic to Western tradition and technological know-how is difficult to underestimate. We don't have computer systems to be speaking like this with out it. Of path, the Islamic students centered their paintings at the paintings of Hindu students and Sanskrit, however we're going to go away that for yet another day. There's 2 important elements that stored Europe from adopting Arabic greater than 800 years in the past, and the ones had been the Mongol invasions that hit the Islamic tradition specifically difficult, and the truth that Arabic does not lend itself as good to relocating sort (the printing press) as with ease because the Roman alphabet. It has not anything to do with any alleged innate superiority of European tradition.
2016-09-03 08:07:48
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