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... Arabs of the Muslim general ' Amr ibn - al - ' Âş when he captured the city in +646 . A story relates that ' Amr wrote his Khalifah asking what to do with these books of the infidels . He received the reply that if they agreed with the ...
... Arabs of the Muslim general ' Amr ibn - al - ' Âş when he captured the city in +646 . A story relates that ' Amr wrote his Khalifah asking what to do with these books of the infidels . He received the reply that if they agreed with the ...
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... Arabic science developed . In science , the Arabs were weaker in theory than the classical Greeks but stronger in practice . Where the Greeks had been mainly interested in knowing things , the Arabs were interested in accomplishing ...
... Arabic science developed . In science , the Arabs were weaker in theory than the classical Greeks but stronger in practice . Where the Greeks had been mainly interested in knowing things , the Arabs were interested in accomplishing ...
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... Arabs continued the system of battle- mented walls and towers that they had inherited from the Romans and Byzantines . They preferred the square tower , which if more vulnerable was easier to build , to the more effective round tower ...
... Arabs continued the system of battle- mented walls and towers that they had inherited from the Romans and Byzantines . They preferred the square tower , which if more vulnerable was easier to build , to the more effective round tower ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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