How so? The article calls it the Hindu-Arabic system.
Yes - I agree that some scholarship tends to bunch all of the middle east under one umbrella. There were Persian scholars and Arab scholars - and that too is quite a broad term. However, there is some merit in there as well as at that time those regions were under Islamic caliphates of one kind or another (Abbasid/Umayyad etc).
Yes - I agree that some scholarship tends to bunch all of the middle east under one umbrella. There were Persian scholars and Arab scholars - and that too is quite a broad term. However, there is some merit in there as well as at that time those regions were under Islamic caliphates of one kind or another (Abbasid/Umayyad etc).