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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Muhommed Abed: I think people need to give credit where credit is due. [/QUOTE]Timbuktu! done. [QUOTE] Timbuktu is not being robbed of its legacy.[/QUOTE]Yes, you are robbing it of its legacy, when trying to take Timbuktu-sourced manuscripts and credit it to Arabs, who have nothing to do with it. [QUOTE] However, the Arab is being denied its contribution to that African culture.[/QUOTE]Well, Arabs were traders; somebody would have assumed that role, if Arabs didn't grasp the opportunity. In fact, as Doctoris Scientia already educated you on, north Africans were western Sudanic primary trading partners; it was these coastal northern Africans that embraced Arabic and Islam, which paved way for western Sudanic traders to embrace it, for geopolitical purpose. So, if one looks at that, the "Arab" contribution that you are even looking at, on the account of "Arabic script", seems even more remote. [QUOTE] You cannot produce one document of higher learning to show these Africans had their own home grown writing and sciences? You don't find that strange, [/QUOTE]A resounding 'nope'. I tell you what I do find strange, that you are looking at [i]Timbuktu[/i] manuscripts and asking people of it is their home-grown property. What kind of IQ do you have to be so dismissive of what is right in front of your two eyes? [QUOTE] considering you do not want to give the Arab his credit at giving that culture its writing and science?[/QUOTE]What culture would that be: "Islam" and "Arabic writing"? Here's where the credit needs to be due: "Islam" would be looked in the same fashion as the extinct dinosaurs if it were not for western Africans and eastern Africans [events in Ethiopia comes to mind]. So the gratitude should be towards Africans, and it should be given by Arabs, not the other way around. "Arabic script" -- Again, derived from African developed script. In fact, it is not even clear that Arabs came up with the script at all. Like I said, the earliest documentations of the script are in Egyptian record, unless you have something to show otherwise. "Arabic language" -- It is nothing more than a downstream phylum of Afrasan languages exported from African into the Levant. Now, you tell us where credit is due? Read up on western Sudanic complex carefully and relieve yourself off the embarrassing ignorance. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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