Arabic mathematics

A Timeline is available to accompany this article. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Timelines/timelineb.html It is titled "Time Line of Arabic Mathematicians from the Dark Ages to the Renaissance". I found it to be fascinating simply because looking at the link tells a story about how connected internationally all these folks were, during what is referred to in Europe as "the Dark Ages" even though it was a Golden Age of academia for the Muslim and Jewish world, centered in al Maghrib and Andalusia but radiating out in all directions. These people knew one another's work, built on it, revised it, made it better which is the nature of learning and progress. It is a list of Mathematicians in the known world from 600AD to 1500. Color coding identifies East Indians, also, and other international notable mathematicians referred to as non-Muslim. (Arabs and Muslims were not necessarily synonymous even in those centuries, so presumably the labeling is contemporary.)

Excerpt from the article at School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland:
"Recent research paints a new picture of the debt that we owe to Arabic/Islamic mathematics. Certainly many of the ideas which were previously thought to have been brilliant new conceptions due to European mathematicians of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are now known to have been developed by Arabic/Islamic mathematicians around four centuries earlier. In many respects the mathematics studied today is far closer in style to that of the Arabic/Islamic contribution than to that of the Greeks and the Renaissance.

There is a widely held view that, after a brilliant period for mathematics when the Greeks laid the foundations for modern mathematics, there was a period of stagnation before the Europeans took over where the Greeks left off at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The common perception of the period of 1000 years or so between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance is that little happened in the world of mathematics except that some Arabic translations of Greek texts were made which preserved the Greek learning so that it was available to the Europeans at the beginning of the sixteenth century."