“But James makes an even more important point which I have not seen repeated elsewhere. It is the missing link in the drama of Moorish scientific ascendancy in the Middle Ages. Eurocentric historians had argued that the Arabs were merely transmitting the Greek heritage lost to Europe during its Dark Age. Even Arabs were made to believe that and to assume that they were standing on the shoulders of Greek giants. By the time they attacked Egypt, Europeans had long been in charge of that defeated country. The Arabs seemed to forget that their conquest of Egypt had been made easy by the resentment of the Egyptians against their Byzantine overlords. We know far more today about the enormous debt Greek science owes to Egypt…. But what was little suspected was that Greece was not the only conduit of Egyptian scientific genius to the Arab world. James provides evidence that there were Egyptians fleeing their country in large numbers during the Persian, Greek and Roman invasions, fleeing not only to the desert and mountain regions but also to adjacent lands in Africa — Arabia and Asia Minor, where, "they lived and secretly developed the teachings which belonged to their Mystery System. In the eighth century A.D. the Moors of North Africa invaded Spain and took with them the Egyptian culture which they had preserved. Knowledge in the ancient days was centralized, that is, it belonged to a common parent and system —the Wisdom System or Mysteries of Egypt, which the Greek used to call Sophia." Article by Ivan Van Sertima Title “The Moor in Africa and Europe: Origins and Definitions” Book “Golden Age of the Moor” Edited by Ivan Van Sertima Page 12
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