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Why Was Muslim Scholarship Slow to Make Inroads in Medieval

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Why was Muslim scholarship slow to make inroads in medieval Western culture?


A) Western intolerance of Islam led scholars to distrust any books or ideas that passed through Muslim hands.
B) Muslims saw their scholarship as sacred and refused to share it with the West.
C) Arab speakers never learned to speak other languages,preventing the spread of their ideas.
D) Muslim scholarship was far behind European intellectual life of the time.
E) The few Muslim texts that reached the West were full of errors,leading Western scholars to dismiss all Muslim sources.

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