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Entry: Inventing Islam Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/inventing_islam#15609 Post contents: In my opinion, the difference in the influencing religious bodies plays as the factor in your argument. Islam lacks a central church or governing body in comparison to Christianity which has been dominated by the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church practiced collection of written work whereas Islam did not. Granted, the Church was more preoccupied with finding heresy in the writings and limiting knowledge that may hurt the Church, but still it collected books from everywhere nonetheless. My speculation is that the dissemination of the works by the Muslims scientists didn't get propagated widely in their world, but these writings ended up in Catholic and Christian libraries where the ideas were plagiarized and taken under non-Muslim ownership. Sent at: 2008 12 02