I don't think intention was to discrediting these people at the time.

I know in modern times they especially refrain from teaching how "orientals" contributed to math and science tho.

I mentioned how Arabs worked in early Algebra to my friends once and they started talking to me about propaganda.

(On sidenote I love being a middle-eastern immigrant in US, everyone assumes I am transphobic! Awesome. /s)

He's Karl der Große, not Charlemagne

His HQ was in Aachen

He's German dammit

Salah ad-Din in spanish is "Saladino"

Fair, but Sheikh Zubayr sounds so much better than Shakespeare.

Is posting a tweet from a dweeb considered meming these days

can we latinize all names, they sound way cooler

Someone do this for romanized historical Chinese, Japanese, and Hindu names.

Okay, but it would be kinda awesome if you called ole Billy Shakes Sheri Zubayr? I might even start doing that?

"Stop latinizing"

We literally did centuries ago. No Arabic name is ever latinized because - aa it turns out - if you stop using Latin, you don't need Latinization.

For existing names, I don't see a problem with using the historic remnant. It was useful at the time because of Latin grammar and the Latin names are much more well established.

It happened with every name by the way. See Confucius, Nostradamus or Copernicus.

What localized name should you call Copernicus by the way?

The Latin Nicolaus Copernicus?
The Polish Mikołaj Kopernik?
The Middle Low German Niklas Koppernigk?
The Modern German Nikolaus Kopernikus?

Turns out being a scientist in a multilingual region leads to a bunch of different names.

Eh, as long as it's just the proper noun, I don't really care that much. Languages can have their own versions of nouns based on the cultural context at the time. Is calling Deutschland Germany a problem? Zhongguo China? Nah.

You wanna call Shakespeare something different, go for it, it just means he was important enough to have a moniker in another language.

I remember when I first listened to a newscaster in aljazeera saying: Gerhard Schröder Sometimes it makes it worse trying...

I've never heard of any of those names, latinised or not, what did they do?

In addition to that, there's a tendency in mathematics to name a formula or theorem after the mathematician that discovered them if they are of western origin, meanwhile discoveries by arab/muslim/non-western academics are often referred to by a name that conceals the identity of the person behind them.

It may be a small thing, but it definitely skews the perception around scientific progress in a eurocentric direction, willingly or not lending support to ideas of superiority of some ethnicities over others.

You should avoid using letters that do not exist or have different pronunciation. Or accept that people pronounce names offensively wrong. Noone cares enough to know every language and place of origin before reading about a thing.

And most people cannot even read the alphabet (IPA). Foreign scripts even less so.

This is not surprising, pretty much everyone did this for names back in the day. Kings, popes, cities and countries all have different names based on the language.