Why Medieval Bankers Had to Hide Their Muslim Teachers

Описание: Your checking account has Arabic origins. Your bank won't tell you this.

In 1202, a mathematician named Fibonacci published a book crediting his Muslim teachers in Algeria for everything he knew about commercial mathematics. Today, textbooks call him a European genius who invented it all himself.

The Knights Templar built Europe's first international banking system using techniques identical to Islamic hawala networks. They never acknowledged the source. They were fighting Muslims while copying their financial systems.

Italian merchants in Venice and Genoa created partnership contracts matching Islamic law clause by clause. They translated the terms from Arabic to Latin. Then they erased the origins.

This video traces the greatest intellectual heist in economic history. From the Cairo Geniza documents to Fibonacci's original manuscripts to the Venetian archives, the evidence sits in plain sight. The erasure was deliberate. The concealment was strategic. And the systems they copied still run your financial life today.

The word "check" comes from the Arabic "sakk." The limited partnership copies the Islamic mudaraba. The wire transfer descends from hawala networks connecting Baghdad to Morocco a thousand years ago.

You were never taught this. Now you will know.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - The Erasure You Never Noticed
2:57 - The Cairo Geniza Discovery
7:03 - Fibonacci's Muslim Teachers
10:24 - The Templar Banking Secret
14:02 - Italian Merchants Rename Everything
17:46 - The Linguistic Fossils
21:43 - The Return of Buried Knowledge

SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

S.D. Goitein - "A Mediterranean Society" (6 volumes)
Abraham Udovitch - "Partnership and Profit in Medieval Islam"
Fibonacci - "Liber Abaci" (1202)
Cairo Geniza Collection - Cambridge University Library
Archivio di Stato di Venezia - Commenda Contracts

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