That, gentlemen, is very one eyed. Arab scholars undoubtedly drew heavily on Indian sources for a lot of topics, from astronomy to medicine. That's not the same as the preservation of classical Greek and Roman texts, for which the Arabs were in a good part responsible.
It's a shame that ridiculous modern ideologies and racial prejudices means people feel the need to score card ancient and medieval contributions. There's plenty of scope to discuss how the contributions took place and what the channels of transmission were, but outright denial of the manifest contributions of the Muslim world to where we are in modern society is a very sad approach to take.
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