Islamic scholars treated Greek learning as legitimate spoils of conquest

Evidence

While the spiritual and most often the temporal authorities of Christendom shunned much of the learning amassed by pre-Christian civilizations, the Arabic-speaking scholars took to this knowledge as a legitimate booty of the wars won by Muslim armies. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 454

Categorization

• CANDY: A counterintuitive neat contrast: Christendom rejected pagan learning while Islam embraced it as war booty.