FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
History is stupid? Suit yourself.
I'm saying that most 'Arabs' are not ethnic Arabs (i.e. from the Hijaz) and that conquering people doesn't change their ethnicity.
The major centres of learning were in Persia, North Africa, Iraq, etc not Mecca or Medina. The majority of people in these places were not ethnic Arabs, they were the indigenous people of the region.
Arabness was a negotiated construct that mostly emerged after the conquests with many genealogies and tribal affiliations emerging retroactively. By the 4th C AH you couldn't really tell if someone's purported lineage was genuine or had been fabricated by an ancestor several centuries previous.
To answer your strawman, most were not Arabs =/= none of them were Arabs.
When you have an empire that is overwhelmingly non-Arab ethnically, it's hardly surprising that most famous scholars are also non-Arab in ethnicity.
I don't care about ethnicity and it doesn't make any sense to me, humans are humans
and the point is that the golden age of Islam started by Islam, being them Arabs or non Arabs,
I don't care, racism to me is ignorance, keep it for you.