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Ibn al-Nafis laid the foundations for circulatory physiology , [] as he was the first to describe the [] and coronary circulation , [] [] which form the basis of the , for which he is considered "the greatest physiologist of the . Ibn al-Lubudi rejected the of , and discovered that the body and its preservation depend exclusively upon blood , women cannot produce sperm , the movement of arteries are not dependent upon the movement of the heart , the heart is the first organ to form in a fetus ' body, and the bones forming the skull can grow into tumors. The study of experimental began with Ibn al-Haytham , [] a pioneer of modern , who introduced the experimental scientific method and used it to drastically transform the understanding of light and vision in his of Optics , which has been ranked alongside 's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica as one of the most influential in the of physics , [] for initiating a scientific in optics [] and visual . The experimental scientific method was soon introduced into mechanics by Biruni , [] and early precursors to Newton's laws of motion were discovered by several Muslim . The law of , known as Newton's first law of motion, and the of momentum were discovered by Ibn al-Haytham Alhacen [] [] and . Many other advances were made by Muslim scientists in biology , , , physiology and zoology , the earth , cartography , geodesy , and geology , psychology experimental psychology , , psychophysics and psychotherapy , and the social sciences , , , history and . The Great of Samarra combined the architecture of rows of columns supporting a flat base above which a huge spiraling was constructed. The mosque is noted for its striking interior arches. The walls are decorated with stylized foliage motifs, inscriptions, and design work, with walls covered in glazed tiles. Another distinctive sub-style is the architecture of the Mughal Empire in in the 15—17th centuries. Lustrous glazing was an Islamic contribution to ceramics. Islamic luster-painted ceramics were imitated by Italian potters during the . Manuscript illumination developed into an important and greatly respected art, and portrait miniature painting flourished in Persia. , an essential aspect of written Arabic, developed in manuscripts and architectural decoration. The epic took form in the 10th century and reached its final form by the ; the number and type of tales have varied from one manuscript to another. This epic has been influential in the West since it was translated in the 18th century, first by Antoine Galland. Part of its may have sprung from the increasing historical and geographical knowledge, so that places of which little was known and so marvels were plausible had to be set further "long ago" or farther "far away"; this is a process that continues, and finally culminate in the fantasy world having little connection, if any, to actual times and places. A number of elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy , such as genies , bahamuts , magic carpets , magic lamps, etc. Frank Baum proposed writing a modern fairy tale that banished stereotypical elements, he included the genie as well as the dwarf and the fairy as stereotypes to go. 's Shahnameh , the national epic of , is a mythical and heroic retelling of Persian history. Amir Arsalan was also a popular mythical Persian story, which has influenced some modern works of fantasy fiction, such as The Heroic Legend of Arslan. A famous example of Arabic and Persian poetry on romance love is , dating back to the Umayyad era in the 7th century. It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later Romeo and Juliet , which was itself said to have been inspired by a version of Layli and Majnun to an extent. Abubacer and Ibn al-Nafis were pioneers of the philosophical . Both of these narratives had protagonists Hayy in Philosophus Autodidactus and Kamil in Theologus Autodidactus who were autodidactic feral children living in seclusion on a , both being the earliest examples of a desert island story. However, while Hayy lives alone with animals on the desert island for the rest of the story in Philosophus Autodidactus , the story of Kamil extends beyond the desert island setting in Theologus Autodidactus , developing into the earliest known coming of age plot and eventually becoming the first example of a fiction novel. Theologus Autodidactus , written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis — , is the first example of a science fiction novel. It deals with various science fiction elements such as , futurology , the end of the world and doomsday , resurrection , and the . Rather than giving supernatural or mythological explnations for these events, Ibn al-Nafis attempted to explain these plot elements using the scientific knowledge of biology , astronomy , cosmology and geology known in his time. His main purpose behind this science fiction work was to explain Islamic religious teachings in terms of science and through the use of fiction. These translations later inspired Defoe to write , regarded as the first novel in English. 's Divine , considered the greatest epic of Italian literature , derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter directly or indirectly from Arabic works on : the and the Kitab al-Miraj translated into Latin in or shortly before [] as Liber Scale Machometi , "The Book of 's Ladder" concerning Muhammad 's ascension to Heaven, and the spiritual writings of . These works are said to have been inspired by several Moorish delegations from to Elizabethan England at the beginning of the 17th century. Ottoman bands are thought to be the oldest variety of military marching band in the world. Though they are often known by the Persian -derived word Mehter. The standard instruments employed by a Mehter are: Bass drum timpani , the kettledrum nakare , Frame drum davul , the Cymbals zil , Oboes and , Zurna , the "Boru" a kind of Trumpet , Triangle instrument , and the Cevgen a kind of stick bearing small concealed bells. These military bands inspired many Western nations and especially the Orchestra inspiring the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Arab like al-Kindi Alkindus and Ibn Rushd and Persian philosophers like Ibn Sina Avicenna played a major role in preserving the works of , whose ideas came to dominate the non-religious thought of the Christian and Muslim worlds. They would also absorb ideas from , and India, adding to them tremendous knowledge from their own studies. This led to Avicenna founding his own school of philosophy, which was influential in both Islamic and Christian lands. Avicenna was also a critic of Aristotelian logic and founder of Avicennian logic , and he developed the of and , and distinguished between and . From Spain the Arabic philosophic literature was translated into Hebrew , Latin, and Ladino , contributing to the development of modern European philosophy. The Jewish Moses , Muslim sociologist- , Carthage citizen Constantine the African who translated Greek medical texts, and the Muslim Al-Khwarzimi 's collation of mathematical techniques were important figures of the Golden Age. One of the most influential Muslim philosophers in the West was Averroes Ibn Rushd , founder of the school of philosophy, whose works and commentaries had an impact on the rise of secular thought in Western . Another influential philosopher who had a significant influence on was Ibn Tufail. His philosophical novel , , translated into Latin as Philosophus Autodidactus in , developed the themes of empiricism, tabula rasa, nature versus nurture , [] condition of possibility , , [] and Molyneux's Problem. Al-Ghazali also had an important influence on Jewish thinkers like Maimonides [] [] and Christian medieval philosophers such as . The study of declined in the due to this critique, though Ibn Rushd Averroes responded strongly in his The Incoherence of the Incoherence to many of the points Ghazali raised. Nevertheless, Avicennism continued to flourish long after and Islamic philosophers continued making advances in philosophy through to the 17th century, when founded his school of and developed the concept of . Other influential Muslim philosophers include al-Jahiz , a pioneer of evolutionary thought and ; Ibn al-Haytham Alhacen , a pioneer of phenomenology and the philosophy of science and a critic of Aristotelian natural philosophy and Aristotle 's concept of place topos ; Biruni , a critic of Aristotelian natural philosophy; Ibn Tufail and Ibn al-Nafis , pioneers of the philosophical novel ; Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi , founder of Illuminationist philosophy ; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi , a critic of Aristotelian logic and a pioneer of inductive logic ; and Ibn Khaldun , a pioneer in the [] and . The and Turks from conquered most of the Eurasian land mass, including both China in the east and parts of the old Islamic and Persian Islamic Khwarezm , as well as Russia and Eastern Europe in the west, and subsequent invasions of the Levant. Later Turkic leaders, such as , though he himself became a Muslim, destroyed many cities, slaughtered thousands of people and did irreparable damage to the ancient irrigation systems of Mesopotamia. These invasions transformed a settled to a nomadic one. On the other hand, due to the lack of a powerful leader after the Mongolian invasion and Turkish settlement, some local Turkish kingdoms appeared in the Islamic world and they were in war and fighting against each other for centuries. The most powerful kingdoms among them were the empire of Ottoman Turks, who became Sunni Muslims and the empire of Safavi Turks, who became Shia Muslims. Eventually, they invaded very wide parts of the Islamic world and entered in a competition and a series of bloody wars until the middle of seventeenth century. Traditionalist Muslims at the time, including the polymath Ibn al-Nafis , believed that the and Mongol invasions were a divine punishment from God against Muslims deviating from the . As a result, the falsafa , some of whom held ideas incompatible with the Sunnah, became targets of criticism from many traditionalist Muslims, though other traditionalists such as Ibn al-Nafis made attempts at reconciling reason with and blur the line between the two. In many instances, Mongols assimilated into various Muslim Iranian or Turkic peoples for instance, one of the greatest Muslim astronomers of the 15th century, , was a grandson of Timur. By the time the rose from the ashes, the Golden Age is considered to have come to an end. According to the traditional view of Islamic , which had at the outset been creative and dynamic in dealing with issues, it began to struggle to respond to the challenges and rapid changes it faced from the onwards, towards the end of the Abbassid rule; despite a brief respite with the new Ottoman rule, the decline apparently continued until its eventual collapse and subsequent stagnation in the 20th century. Some scholars such as M. Sanduk believe that the declination began from around the and still continued after this. Nevertheless, many agree that there was still a decline in scientific activity after the 16th century. Despite a number of attempts by many writers, historical and modern, none seem to agree on the causes of decline. The main views on the causes of decline comprise the following: political mismanagement after the early Caliphs 10th century onwards , foreign involvement by invading forces and colonial powers 11th century Crusades , , 15th century , 19th century European colonial empires , and the disruption to the cycle of equity based on Ibn Khaldun 's famous model of the rise and fall of which points to the decline being mainly due to political and economic factors. North Africa 's Islamic civilization collapsed after exhausting its resources in internal fighting and suffering devastation from the invasion of the Arab tribes of Banu Sulaym and . Plague epidemics kept returning to the Islamic world up to the 19th century. A significant intellectual shift in is perhaps demonstrated by al-Ghazali 's late 11th century polemic work The Incoherence of the Philosophers , which lambasted metaphysical philosophy in favor of the primacy of scripture, and was later criticized in The Incoherence of the Incoherence by Averroes. of science comprising Islamic universities , including the , observatories, and , were later destroyed by foreign invaders like the Crusaders and particularly the Mongols , and were rarely promoted again in the devastated regions. Meanwhile in Persia , due to the Mongol invasions and the plague , the average of the scholarly in Persia had declined from 72 years in to 57 years by American economist Timur Kuran has argued that economic development in the lagged behind that of the West in modern times due to the limitations of Islamic partnership law and inheritance law. He argues that these laws restricted the growth of Middle Eastern enterprises, and prevented the development of corporate forms. He points out that Europe had a greater abundance of natural resources required to fuel industrialization, including much greater access to water to drive watermills, much larger amounts of metals to build machinery, and large amounts of coal to smelt metals. In contrast, the Middle East often had to import metals from Europe, and this Near-Eastern demand for metals in turn greatly contributed to the growth of European economies at the time. Goody concludes that the primary factor for the Middle East failing to industrialize was due to its lack of necessary natural resources, particularly metals. This lack of natural resources was not compensated for until the discovery of oil in the Middle East during the early 20th century. In Don't have an account? Main articles: and Early reforms under Islam. Now that you are safe and free to say whatever you please appoint some arbitrator who will impartially judge between us and lean only towards the truth and be free from the empary of passion, and that arbitrator shall be Reason , whereby God makes us responsible for our own rewards and punishments. Herein I have dealt justly with you and have given you full security and am ready to accept whatever decision Reason may give for me or against me. For "There is no compulsion in religion" Qur'an 2 and I have only invited you to accept our faith willingly and of your own accord and have pointed out the hideousness of your present belief. be upon you and the blessings of God! Main article: . Main article: Madrasah. These figures are so imposing that only the printed epoch presents comparable materials" [47]. Main article: Islamic astronomy. Main article: . Main article: Islamic geography. Main article: Islamic Agricultural Revolution. Main article: in the world. Main articles: Inventions in the medieval Islamic world , Islamic Agricultural Revolution , and Timeline of Muslim scientists and engineers. Main article: Islamic science. Main article: Islam. Main article: Islamic . Main article: Islamic medicine. Main article: Islamic physics. Main article: . Main article: . Main articles: , , Arabic epic literature , and . Main articles: Islamic philosophy and Early Islamic philosophy. The decadence of Islam and of Arabic is almost as puzzling in its speed and completeness as their phenomenal rise. Scholars will forever try to explain it as they try to explain the decadence and fall of Rome. Such questions are exceedingly complex and it is impossible to answer them in a simple way. Kraemer , in the Renaissance of Islam , p. Falagas, Effie A. Zarkadoulia, George Samonis Turner , Science in Medieval Islam , p. : A Global Reader. Sharpe, 52—8. ISBN Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. Spring, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 77 1 : 60— PMID PMC : Coulson, Delivering Education , Hoover , p. The ability to read and write was far more widely enjoyed in the early medieval Islamic empire and in fourth-century-B. Athens than in any other cultures of their times. We should note that Chinese books were printed in small editions of a hundred or so copies. Perhaps it will prove to have been even more important than the recent move from typographic culture to the Internet. The result was remarkable. As historian Jonathan Bloom informs us, paper encouraged "an efflorescence of books and written culture incomparably more brilliant than was known anywhere in Europe until the invention of with movable type in the fifteenth century. Muslim young men were encouraged to memorize the Qur'an as part of their transition to adulthood, and while most presumably did not though little is known about literacy levels in pre-Mongol Muslim , others did. Types of literacy in any event varied, as Nelly Hanna has recently suggested, and are best studied as part of the complex and contexts of Muslim societies. The need to conform commercial contracts and business arrangements to Islamic law provided a further impetus for literacy, especially likely in commercial centers. Scholars often engaged in commercial activity and craftsmen or tradesmen often spent time studying in . The connection between what Brian Street has called "maktab literacy" and commercial literacy was real and exerted a steady pressure on to upgrade their reading skills. Swerdlow Retrieved on Frolova Ahsani July Cambridge University Press. Taqi al-Din and Arabic Mechanical , pp. Servile Labor , in A. Ascher, B. Kiraly, and T. It is agreed that all agricultural societies conform to a given demographic pattern of behaviour, which includes a high birth-rate and a slightly lower death-rate, significant enough to allow a slow population increase of 0. Other demographic characteristics of this society are high infant mortality, with deaths per within the first year of birth, a lower average life expectancy, of twenty to twenty-five years, and a broadly based population pyramid, where the number of young people at the bottom of the pyramid is very high in relationship to the rest of the population, and that children are set to work at an early stage. Islamic society diverged from this demographic profile in some significant points, although not always consistently. Studies have shown that during certain periods, such factors as attitudes to marriage and sex, birth control, birth and death rates, age of marriage and patterns of marriage, family size and migration pattems, varied from the traditional agricultural model. No less than three separate studies about the life expectancy of religious scholars, two from 11th century Muslim Spain, and one from the Middle East, concluded that members of this occupational group enjoyed a life expectancy of 69, 75, and A Century of Wonder, Vol. The Making of Humanity , p. Kasem Ajram Miracle of Islamic Science , Appendix B. Knowledge House Publishers. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Kazi Publications. Dalafi, Mohamed Hassan Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries , p. Lindberg Elliott Electromagnetics , Chapter 1. Ibn al- Haytham: First , Chapter 5. Morgan Reynolds Publishing. Benos et al. These peers act as sentinels on the road of scientific discovery and publication. Columbia University. London: Routledge. Marmura The Making of Humanity , pp. A 13th-Century Darwin? Tusi's Views on Evolution , Azerbaijan International 9 2. In his speech last week in , President Obama proclaimed he was a "student of history. Obama's image as an Ivy League-educated intellectual, he lacks historical competency in both facts and interpretation. Europeans, Chinese, and Hindus, not Muslims, invented most of the breakthroughs Obama credited to Islamic innovation. Many romantic thinkers of the Enlightenment sought to extend freedom to oppressed subjects of Muslim fundamentalist rule in eastern and southern Europe. Andrew Bostom has skewered the myth that Cordoba was a model of ecumenism:. Expanding upon Jane Gerber's thesis about the "garish" myth of a "Golden Age," the late Richard Fletcher in his Moorish Spain offered a fair assessment of interfaith relationships in Muslim Spain and his view of additional contemporary currents responsible for obfuscating that history:. The witness of those who lived through the horrors of the Berber conquest, of the Andalusian fitnah [ordeal] in the early eleventh century, of the Almoravid invasion — to mention only a few disruptive episodes — must give it [i. The simple and verifiable historical truth is that Moorish Spain was more often a land of turmoil than it was of tranquility. Ask the Jews of who were massacred in , or the who were deported by the Almoravids to Morocco in like the Moriscos five centuries later. Stir the mix well and issue it free to credulous academics and media persons throughout the . Then pour it generously over the truth … in the cultural conditions that prevail in the West today, the past has to be marketed, and to be successfully marketed, it has to be attractively packaged. Medieval Spain in a state of nature lacks wide appeal. Self-indulgent fantasies of glamour … do wonders for sharpening its image. But Moorish Spain was not a tolerant and enlightened society even in its most cultivated epoch. Armed with new archaeological evidence, Scott makes the compelling case, originally put forward in by Henri Pirenne, a Belgian historian, that Classical civilization did not collapse after the fall of the Roman empire but was gradually attrited by the onslaught of Arab armies and raiders. The came close to permanently destroying the classical humanistic culture of the West. Hanson has pointed out the factual errors in Obama's paean to Islam's Golden Age. Andrew Bostom has skewered the myth that Cordoba was a model of ecumenism Trikovic has shown that the continuation of learning, science, technology of the "Golden age of Islam" prospered in spite of Islam and not because of Islam and now we have Emmet Scott skewering the myth that the Golden Age of Islam saved Classical humanistic . What is next? The glory of Sharia? All reserved. The articles printed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editors or of Gatestone Institute. No part of the Gatestone website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied or modified, without the prior written consent of Gatestone Institute. Note: Gatestone appreciates your comments. The editors reserve the right not to publish comments containing: incitement to violence, profanity, or broad-brush slurring of any race, ethnic group or religion. Gatestone also reserves the right to edit comments for length, clarity and grammar, or to conform to these guidelines. Commenters' email addresses will not be displayed publicly. Please limit comments to words or less. Longer submissions are unlikely to be published. Just because a peoples occupy a geography doesn't mean they can steal the history of that land. A city that Western Europe was jealous of, hence their failure to send aid when the Ottomans went after it and hence their reluctance to allow it to go back to Christian hands during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire when Russia and Bulgaria were in the position to claim it! There's always the popular history. William Manchester heavily argues for the use of the term Dark Ages, if I recall correctly, noting the regression of engineering, agriculture, and literacy. Of course, Charlemagne's illiteracy is used to justify the decline even though he tried to advance education in his 'court. Also, St. Augustine and other scholars of the church aided learning, literacy, and culture in the former Western Empire. The Muslim armies arrived in Spain by conquering the then largely non-Arab and non-Muslim territories of North Africa. Remember also that following their rebuff in Western Europe, Muslim armies invaded Northern Hindu India with a level of viciousness that goes to the heart of ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan. I think this is a dangerous trend. If today Hanson, Bostom, Scott and the like succeed in their attempt of distorting and re-inventing the established Islamic history, tomorrow they will be emboldened enough to challenge the established story of anti-Samitism and the Holocaust. I think they should be banned of all their academic activity like the way it is banned for Holocaust deniers. To suggest banning anyone who disagrees with an 'established' history is remote from academic standards. Most of what they say derives from the sort of 'established' Islamic history I studied at university and later taught at another university. In any academic discipline there will be diverging , and excessive attachment to an 'established' version is considered dangerous. By 'established' I think you mean the Islamic version. But most Western of Islam, including Pirenne's, are challenges to those norms. Some modern histories of Muhammad are extremely transgressive of the norm. These 7 Islamic Golden Age Inventions Changed The World

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More Resources. The disciplines of science, philosophy, gender studies and history are mitigating factors for those who clutch steadfast to archaic religious tradition, which is why for the most part believers in developed countries have a tendency to interpret primordial texts a little less literally. Orthodox Jews, who have access to The Discovery Channel and Animal Planet , are less likely to live out the tale of Jonah jumping into the mouth of Shamu trying to repent sins of eating shellfish Shout out to "Blue Planet: Sounds of the Sea". Conversely, men and women in American Muslim communities are excelling quickly through the ranks of higher education, the has been transformative in the black community and although there are more accusation of than honest dialogue about their brethren 6, miles away, there is an understanding that Islamic law must be subservient to the U. S Constitution, a living text that allows for modification and revision, unlike the . As is evident, Islam -- much like the Judeo-Christian religion -- can only attempt tolerance and co-existence while parallel to a liberal arts education and a secular system of , without which there is an inevitable clashing of civilizations. Unfortunately, in the same regions that once flourished almost 1, years ago, we are witnessing the calamitous affects of the Mongol invasion and Christian Crusades. The Muslim world continues to invest only 0. There are a mere universities in the entire Islamic Diaspora, while not a single higher education facility has been featured in the Top Ranking Universities of the World due to the curriculum focusing more heavily on Surah Al-Fajr than Einstein's Law of Relativity. Since , only two muslims have ever been awarded the Nobel Prize in Science perhaps more if Scandinavian committees counted the chivalrous chemists concocting poison gas elixirs to throw in the schools for girls. The current literacy rates for males in Islamic communities are dismal, ranging from 43 percent in Afghanistan, 58 percent in Pakistan and 70 percent in Egypt to percent throughout Mali, Senegal and Guinea. For female literacy rates you can often take these paltry numbers and divide them by two. These are heart breaking for a girl like myself who once found insight into my own life through the analytical writings of the legendary brown philosophers of the Middle Ages. In light of the rampant violence, gender disparity and blind indoctrination at the expense of intellectual advancement pervasive throughout the Middle East and Africa, I find myself romanticizing the Golden Age, hoping at some point in the distant future that type of luminosity might return to the Muslim World. US Edition U. Coronavirus News U. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Religion. All rights reserved. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Calling all HuffPost superfans! Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter. Join HuffPost. Today is National Voter Registration Day! The Golden Age of Islam. Islamic Inventions. List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia The Golden Age of Islam, according to most , spanned the 8th to the 13th centuries -- a time that happens to coincide with the heart of the Dark Ages in Europe. This will become significant later. The Abbasids were inspired by verses from the Quran and that emphasize the value of knowledge -- rather than just religious devotion -- and they strongly pushed for advances in science, art, and commerce. The Golden Age is noted in particular for its general of tolerance and inclusivity. In , the heart of the Caliphate, Christian and Jewish scholars were invited to join Muslim leaders to share ideas and information. These scholars were assigned to what amounts to state-sponsored research projects, including the Islamic world's first astronomical observatory. This center of knowledge in the capitol of the dynasty was known as the House of Wisdom. During the Golden Age, and philosophers wrote medical and text books that were used for centuries in the field of medicine. Mu'awiya gathers a large collection of books in , the Umayyads' capital, and founds the Bayt al-Hikma, an early version of the later House of Wisdom. The begins. The Abbasid Caliphate begins, standing as a rival to the Umayyads. The Abbasids become known for being more inclusive towards non-. Contact with the Tang Dynasty introduces paper. The Abbasid Caliphate's forces clash against those of the Chinese Tang Dynasty for control over the strategically valuable Syr Darya region. After this battle, paper starts to be manufactured in the Middle East. This access to paper becomes another key aspect in the flourishing of Muslim scholarship. Baghdad is built. Baghdad is founded by the Abbasids at the heart of their empire. Built on the banks of the River, Baghdad becomes the largest city on Earth at the time and serves as a center for trade between Africa and Asia. This allows the Abbasid to generate great wealth in taxes and act as patrons for the arts. The House of Wisdom is founded. This begins the Translation Movement, thanks to al-Rashid's support, in which works are collected from classical periods and translated into Arabic. The movement initially focuses on medicine, mathematics, and astronomy, but others, particularly philosophy, follow. One Thousand and One Nights is consolidated. This historic period has made immeasurable contributions to mankind in such fields as Science, Philosophy, and Medicine. In-fact, its been suggested that without the preservation and development of knowledge in this era, the Renaissance would not have been possible because it relied on the knowledge passed on from the Islamic Golden Age. Islam places emphasis on the importance of education and knowledge which resulted in a high literacy rate. Eventually formal schools known as Madrassas emerged and ideas were exchanged in these Centres of Learning scattered across the Empire as Libraries and Universities were built. For inspiration the Islamic Empire was greatly influenced by the Persians and Greeks, and it translated a lot of classical works of Persian and Greek origin into Arabic. The first significant translation projects included taking Islamic holy texts like the Quran and translating them into various to spread Islam around the Empire and the World. These Scholars would build on the information translated from Persian and Greek Texts to develop new ideas such as which provided ways to diagnose dangerous diseases like Cancer, and in Mathematics innovations like Alegbra and Calculus would emerge.

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Ottoman military bands are thought to be the oldest variety of military marching band in the world. Though they are often known by the Persian- derived word Mehter. The standard instruments employed by a Mehter are: Bass drum timpani , the kettledrum nakare , Frame drum davul , the Cymbals zil , Oboes and Flutes, Zurna, the "Boru" a kind of trumpet , Triangle instrument , and the Cevgen a kind of stick bearing small concealed bells. These military bands inspired many Western nations and especially the Orchestra inspiring the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Arab philosophers like al-Kindi Alkindus and Ibn Rushd Averroes and Persian philosophers like Ibn Sina Avicenna played a major role in preserving the works of Aristotle, whose ideas came to dominate the non-religious thought of the Christian and Muslim worlds. They would also absorb ideas from China, and India, adding to them tremendous knowledge from their own studies. This led to Avicenna founding his own Avicennism school of philosophy, which was influential in both Islamic and Christian lands. Avicenna was also a critic of Aristotelian logic and founder of Avicennian logic, and he developed the concepts of empiricism and tabula rasa, and distinguished between essence and existence. From Spain the Arabic philosophic literature was translated into Hebrew, Latin, and Ladino, contributing to the development of modern European philosophy. The Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides, Muslim sociologist-historian Ibn Khaldun, Carthage citizen Constantine the African who translated ancient Greek medical texts, and the Muslim Al-Khwarzimi's collation of mathematical techniques were important figures of the Golden Age. One of the most influential Muslim philosophers in the West was Averroes Ibn Rushd , founder of the Averroism school of philosophy, whose works and commentaries had an impact on the rise of secular thought in Western Europe Nawal Muhammad Hassan, He also developed the concept of "existence precedes essence". Another influential philosopher who had a significant influence on modern philosophy was Ibn Tufail. His philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, translated into Latin as Philosophus Autodidactus in , developed the themes of empiricism, tabula rasa, nature versus nurture, condition of possibility, materialism, and Molyneux's Problem. Al-Ghazali also had an important influence on Jewish thinkers like Maimonides and Christian medieval philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas. However, al-Ghazali also wrote a devastating critique in his The Incoherence of the Philosophers on the speculative theological works of Kindi, Farabi and Ibn Sina. The study of metaphysics declined in the Muslim world due to this critique, though Ibn Rushd Averroes responded strongly in his The Incoherence of the Incoherence to many of the points Ghazali raised. Nevertheless, Avicennism continued to flourish long after and Islamic philosophers continued making advances in philosophy through to the 17th century, when Mulla Sadra founded his school of Transcendent Theosophy and developed the concept of existentialism. Other influential Muslim philosophers include al-Jahiz, a pioneer of evolutionary thought and natural selection; Ibn al-Haytham Alhacen , a pioneer of phenomenology and the philosophy of science and a critic of Aristotelian natural philosophy and Aristotle's concept of place topos ; Biruni, a critic of Aristotelian natural philosophy; Ibn Tufail and Ibn al-Nafis, pioneers of the philosophical novel; Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, founder of Illuminationist philosophy; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, a critic of Aristotelian logic and a pioneer of inductive logic; and Ibn Khaldun, a pioneer in the philosophy of history and social philosophy. Despite a number of attempts by many writers, historical and modern, none seem to agree on the causes of decline. The main views on the causes of decline comprise the following: political mismanagement after the early Caliphs 10th century onwards , foreign involvement by invading forces and colonial powers 11th century Crusades, 13th century Mongol Empire, 15th century Reconquista, 19th century European colonial empires , and the disruption to the cycle of equity based on Ibn Khaldun's famous model of Asabiyyah the rise and fall of civilizations which points to the decline being mainly due to political and economic factors. References 1. Boyer and Kenneth J. Nahyan A. This provides the stability and influence necessary for the Golden Age scholars. The begins. , the final Caliph, is assassinated and power transfers to his rival, Mu'awiya, who founds the Umayyad Caliphate. The Umayyads begin another large period of expansion, taking the empire to the Atlantic coast of Africa, into Spain, and deeper into Asia. This serves to strengthen the community for the scholars of the Golden Age. The Bayt al-Hikma is founded in Syria. Mu'awiya gathers a large collection of books in Syria, the Umayyads' capital, and founds the Bayt al-Hikma, an early version of the later House of Wisdom. The Abbasid Caliphate begins. The Abbasid Caliphate begins, standing as a rival to the Umayyads. The Abbasids become known for being more inclusive towards non- Arab Muslims. Contact with the Tang Dynasty introduces paper. The Abbasid Caliphate's forces clash against those of the Chinese Tang Dynasty for control over the strategically valuable Syr Darya region. After this battle, paper starts to be manufactured in the Middle East. This access to paper becomes another key aspect in the flourishing of Muslim scholarship. Baghdad is built. Baghdad is founded by the Abbasids at the heart of their empire. American economist Timur Kuran has argued that economic development in the Middle East lagged behind that of the West in modern times due to the limitations of Islamic partnership law and inheritance law. He argues that these laws restricted the growth of Middle Eastern enterprises, and prevented the development of corporate forms. He points out that Europe had a greater abundance of natural resources required to fuel industrialization, including much greater access to water to drive watermills, much larger amounts of metals to build machinery, and large amounts of coal to smelt metals. In contrast, the Middle East often had to import metals from Europe, and this Near-Eastern demand for metals in turn greatly contributed to the growth of European economies at the time. Goody concludes that the primary factor for the Middle East failing to industrialize was due to its lack of necessary natural resources, particularly metals. This lack of natural resources was not compensated for until the discovery of oil in the Middle East during the early 20th century. Sign In Don't have an account? Main articles: Islamic ethics and Early reforms under Islam. Now that you are safe and free to say whatever you please appoint some arbitrator who will impartially judge between us and lean only towards the truth and be free from the empary of passion, and that arbitrator shall be Reason , whereby God makes us responsible for our own rewards and punishments. Herein I have dealt justly with you and have given you full security and am ready to accept whatever decision Reason may give for me or against me. For "There is no compulsion in religion" Qur'an 2 and I have only invited you to accept our faith willingly and of your own accord and have pointed out the hideousness of your present belief. Peace be upon you and the blessings of God! Main article: Bimaristan. Main article: Madrasah. These figures are so imposing that only the printed epoch presents comparable materials" [47]. Main article: Islamic astronomy. Main article: Sharia. Main article: Islamic geography. Main article: Islamic Agricultural Revolution. Main article: Islamic economics in the world. Main articles: Inventions in the medieval Islamic world , Islamic Agricultural Revolution , and Timeline of Muslim scientists and engineers. Main article: Islamic science. Main article: Alchemy Islam. Main article: Islamic mathematics. Main article: Islamic medicine. Main article: Islamic physics. Main article: Islamic architecture. Main article: Islamic art. Main articles: Islamic literature , Arabic literature , Arabic epic literature , and Persian literature. Main articles: Islamic philosophy and Early Islamic philosophy. The decadence of Islam and of Arabic is almost as puzzling in its speed and completeness as their phenomenal rise. Scholars will forever try to explain it as they try to explain the decadence and fall of Rome. Such questions are exceedingly complex and it is impossible to answer them in a simple way. Kraemer , Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam , p. Falagas, Effie A. Zarkadoulia, George Samonis Turner , Science in Medieval Islam , p. Racism: A Global Reader. Sharpe, 52—8. ISBN Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. Spring, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 77 1 : 60— PMID PMC : Coulson, Delivering Education , Hoover Institution , p. The ability to read and write was far more widely enjoyed in the early medieval Islamic empire and in fourth-century-B. Athens than in any other cultures of their times. We should note that Chinese books were printed in small editions of a hundred or so copies. Perhaps it will prove to have been even more important than the recent move from typographic culture to the Internet. The result was remarkable. As historian Jonathan Bloom informs us, paper encouraged "an efflorescence of books and written culture incomparably more brilliant than was known anywhere in Europe until the invention of printing with movable type in the fifteenth century. Muslim young men were encouraged to memorize the Qur'an as part of their transition to adulthood, and while most presumably did not though little is known about literacy levels in pre-Mongol Muslim societies , others did. Types of literacy in any event varied, as Nelly Hanna has recently suggested, and are best studied as part of the complex social dynamics and contexts of individual Muslim societies. The need to conform commercial contracts and business arrangements to Islamic law provided a further impetus for literacy, especially likely in commercial centers. Scholars often engaged in commercial activity and craftsmen or tradesmen often spent time studying in madrasas. The connection between what Brian Street has called "maktab literacy" and commercial literacy was real and exerted a steady pressure on individuals to upgrade their reading skills. Swerdlow Retrieved on Frolova Ahsani July Cambridge University Press. Taqi al-Din and Arabic , pp. Servile Labor , in A. Ascher, B. Kiraly, and T. It is agreed that all agricultural societies conform to a given demographic pattern of behaviour, which includes a high birth-rate and a slightly lower death-rate, significant enough to allow a slow population increase of 0. Other demographic characteristics of this society are high infant mortality, with deaths per within the first year of birth, a lower average life expectancy, of twenty to twenty-five years, and a broadly based population pyramid, where the number of young people at the bottom of the pyramid is very high in relationship to the rest of the population, and that children are set to work at an early stage. Islamic society diverged from this demographic profile in some significant points, although not always consistently. Studies have shown that during certain periods, such factors as attitudes to marriage and sex, birth control, birth and death rates, age of marriage and patterns of marriage, family size and migration pattems, varied from the traditional agricultural model. No less than three separate studies about the life expectancy of religious scholars, two from 11th century Muslim Spain, and one from the Middle East, concluded that members of this occupational group enjoyed a life expectancy of 69, 75, and A Century of Wonder, Vol. The Making of Humanity , p. Kasem Ajram Miracle of Islamic Science , Appendix B. Knowledge House Publishers. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Kazi Publications. Dalafi, Mohamed Hassan Renaissance of Sciences in Islamic Countries , p. Lindberg Elliott Electromagnetics , Chapter 1. Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist , Chapter 5. Morgan Reynolds Publishing. Benos et al. These peers act as sentinels on the road of scientific discovery and publication. Columbia University. London: Routledge. Marmura The Making of Humanity , pp. A 13th- Century Darwin? Tusi's Views on Evolution , Azerbaijan International 9 2. Zahoor and Dr. Routledge , London. Martin-Araguz, C. Bustamante-Martinez, Ajo V. Fernandez-Armayor, J. Moreno-Martinez . Siraisi", The Journal of Modern History 62 1 , pp. Eldredge , "The Randomised Controlled Trial design: unrecognized opportunities for health sciences librarianship", Health Information and Libraries Journal 20 , pp. Craig Brater and Walter J. Daly and D. Craig Brater , "Medieval contributions to the search for truth in clinical medicine", Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 43 4 , pp. Al-Dabbagh Leclerc , Histoire de la medecine Arabe , vol. Syed, Ph. Salih, M.

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