{"id":7914,"date":"2019-06-11T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T15:19:01","slug":"persians-and-parsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2019\/06\/persians-and-parsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Persians and Parsis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unfortunately, could not find a copy of this book.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One can find various quotes<\/a> like this by Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun:<\/p>\n

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Thus the founders of grammar were Sibawaih and after him, al-Farisi and Az-Zajjaj. All of them were of Persian descent\u2026 they invented rules of (Arabic) grammar \u2026 great jurists were Persians \u2026 only the Persians engaged in the task of preserving knowledge and writing systematic scholarly works. Thus the truth of the statement of the prophet becomes apparent, ‘If learning were suspended in the highest parts of heaven the Persians would attain it’ \u2026 The intellectual sciences were also the preserve of the Persians, left alone by the Arabs, who did not cultivate them \u2026 as was the case with all crafts \u2026 This situation continued in the cities as long as the Persians and Persian countries, Iraq, Khorasan and Transoxiana [=modern Central Asia], retained their sedentary culture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stereotypes are not always true, but usually. So given persistent stereotypes about Persian intellectual superiority among peoples of the region, I tried some quantitative analyses.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia: Founders of schools\/fields<\/strong><\/h3>\n