In this interesting MAA Convergence piece, the author -- Nuh Aydin of -- reflects on the impacts, challenges, and design of an undergraduate course on "History of Mathematics in the Islamic World," aimed at liberal arts students. maa.org/press/periodic
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As an example of the work that Nuh Aydin and his students are doing, take a look at this video about the history of the decimal point and decimal fractions. It explains that Islamic mathematicians wrote about these ideas long before Stevin in Europe.
