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of them non-muslims or heretical muslims, played a role in transmitting greek literature and greek, hindu, and other pre-islamic knowledge to the christian west. they contributed to making aristotle known in christian europe. in addition, the period saw the recovery of much of the alexandrian mathematical
, geometric, and astronomical knowledge, such as that of euclides and claudius ptolemy . these recovered mathematical methods were later enhanced and developed by other islamic scholars, notably by al-biruni, and abu nasr mansur, who are thought to have first derived the cosine rule and applied it to...
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