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The "Arabic" numbering system, which actually came from India, and the writings of Bramhagupta were translated into Arabic around 700AD or so.

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How exactly do you translate a numeral?

Either way the form that was brought back by the "barbarians" was the one that took hold and ended up becoming what we know of as the Numeral system. After all it's not like the "heathens" decided to sack and burn Indian cities in the name of God now is it?

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So many so-called Islamic discoveries were actually the work of those whom the muslims/arabs conquered and were re-cast as "muslim" discoveries.

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They had some inventions, but in all actuality what they did best was keep the Roman discoveries like medicine and science alive for longer. Indeed, it was those medicines and sciences that some "barbarians" brought back with them. It helped to create an Enlightenment in those "barbaric" countries...

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Did you know that 200 years after domed mosques were first built in dar al islam there were NO Muslims capable of figuring out the stresses on the curves of the domes?
Byzantinian slaves (called "Dhimmi's, like all slaves who are not Muslims) had designed, engineered and built all of those beautiful domed buildings.

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Why do I not trust your source? Well even if it is straight up you're still forgetting that the Muslims shunned all science and technology in favor of religious extremism when the invading hordes came to their shores in a wave of "holy" war...