>>4245845lol no. persians were doing science centuries before islam showed up. the sasanians under khosrow I sponsored translations of greek and indian works on medicine, astronomy and math into pahlavi, and he even took in the greek philosophers justinian kicked out of athens in 529. the qanat irrigation tunnels go back to the achaemenids, that's over a thousand years before maphammad was born.
<reddit spaceand the "golden age" you're crediting islam for didn't come from nowhere. when al-mansur built baghdad he had to bring in doctors from gondishapur, a persian center of medicine from the sasanian era, like the bukhtishu family, who were CHRISTIANS btw. so the abbasids inherited a tradition that was already there. then the biggest names of that era like ibn sina, al-razi, al-biruni and al-khwarizmi were persians too.
>become relevant after islam.wrong, slam got relevant in science partly because it absorbed persia