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Those were empires not civilizations, unless you want to consider them as complex and thriving societies for their era (which I personally do not). I could be here all day pointing out how the few scholars worth mentioning that rose from those empires achieved what they achieved due to the transmission of classical Greco-Roman knowledge or other school of thought that rose from a pagan society. They had to have a scientific background source, which clearly wasn't to be found in the Quran or in Islamic preach. Just to name a few examples, the so called Arabic astronomy only came to be through the mediation of Hellenistic astronomy. Also the Ottoman architecture was mostly based on Byzantine architectural artifacts such as the church of Hagia Sophia, which served as a role-model for most of the Ottoman mosques.
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