This is something bought up every time science is mentioned in the context of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, but it's more nuanced than that. Every civilization goes through cultural trends, and Luddites are universal. It's also helpful to think of scientific progress accelerating in places where different civilizations can interact, and the core Arab lands had reached a sort of homogeneity by the Middle Ages, and some level of intellectual stagnation, pretty similar to Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Contrast with parts of the Islamic world at the periphery, and you see a great deal of innovation. The early Ottoman period was one of major technical innovation, as was the Indian subcontinent.