David Megginson on Nostr: Just so. And other Arab words also made their way on into English, like algebra, (*al ...

Just so. And other Arab words also made their way on into English, like algebra, (*al jabr*) and admiral (*emir al …*).

The sudden explosion of scholarship in medieval western Europe's 12th/13th century renaissance was largely the result of Arab and Jewish learning making its way into the nascent Christian universities in places like Oxford and Paris and cathedral schools in places like Canterbury.

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