Muslim Arabs borrowed Greek science but rejected Greek thought conflicting with Islam

Evidence

Muslim Arabs received, valued, and made use of their “Hellenic inheritance for essentially utilitarian reasons. Being mostly interested in borrowing certain external forms or technical aspects, they knew how to disregard all elements in the Greek body of thought that would conflict with ‘the truth’ as established in their fundamental Koranic norms and precepts.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 205

Categorization

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• XREF: connects to: European science built directly on Muslim scholarship and Copernicus drew on Arabic sources — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 340