I'm not "fetishizing" anything.Given credit for what, really? It's not like some arab one fine day woke up and made it his life's mission to spread the knowledge of zero among the europeans. That kind of think just spreads naturally along trade routes! Sorry but you are the one fetishizing around the idea that "the arabs did this", whatever.
The Arabs shared the zero with the Europeans. That's a historical fact. Just acknowledge it and move on. There were other sorts of knowledge that were shared here and there, as well as some - SOME - things that were preserved after 1453. It's better that SOME of this happened, rather than NONE.
Are my words being converted to Romulan, or is this truly that hard to understand?

Slavery is something that has been independently invented over and over, all across the planet, in many different eras.The two things "the arabs" did do intentionally were to conquer a big portion of the former byzantine empire, and to spread their own religion across that land. In that they acted pretty much as many other conquerors before and after. And it is true that had the arabs not conquered that land, then the persians, the byzantines, the mongols, or whatever people actually lived in that land would have done so. And btw, "the arabs" were not the actual population of Persia, you should probably say that the persians (or perhaps even the armenians) carried the idea of the zero from India.
As for the religion thing, a lot could be speculated about wether ih contributed to turning the mediterranean mostly from a unifying trade route to an area of division and near-constant warfare for 10 centuries. And keeping slavery into European thought, even as it declined first across western and northern Europe, and later eastern Europe. The Mediterranean was the main area in Europe where warfare remained tied to enslavement. Does that, under your logic, mean that slavery is another "technology" the arabs should be credit with transmitting from the classical world? Or was it just an accident or circumstances and geography, as I believe?
As for religion, I have no use for any of it. It's mind-boggling how many people seem to think that because I'm anti-Christian, that makes me pro-Islam/Muslim/whatever the correct term is. I'm atheist to all of them.
"We" should avoid the "royal we" because it makes "us" look pompous.We should try to avoid projecting on people and events from the past out political ideas and biases of the present.
I'm done talking to you in this thread, as well.