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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:02:08 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:33:03 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> We will descend into near barbarism under Islam ...
> 
> Just a note that Islam played its part in propagating the culture of
> learning inherited from the ancient Greeks, back when the Christians’
> idea of “learning” was making elaborately-illuminated copies of their
> holy books.

Spengler saw the Abbasid Caliphate as the late phase of the Arabian 
culture before it devolved into the Seljuk empire. Al-Andalus is long gone 
to be replaced by fellaheen with suicide vasts.