Comment by christkv
4 hours ago
They transmitted the text yeah but they were not the “preserver” of the roman legacy. The byzantines viewed themselves as romans.
4 hours ago
They transmitted the text yeah but they were not the “preserver” of the roman legacy. The byzantines viewed themselves as romans.
I was talking about Greek texts rather than Roman legacy, whatever that means. Arabs certainly preserved some of the Greek texts, because many haven't survived in origianl Greek manuscripts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeco-Arabic_translation_move...
The Muslims also made original contributions to science, e.g. Ibn Sahl discovering what later became known as Snell's law of refraction.