Islamic golden age

Because most of the problems of modern Islam stems from Western powers purposely fucking with Wahhabism and Arab tribalism in the 20th century.

The eternal anglo strikes again.

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because this dude

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>>2191231
there was no "golden age", they simply copied greek/persian works into arabic

>>2191231
>Why was Islam so much more 'progressive' 1000 years ago,

It wasn't, it was simply a minority religion over most of its territory. Most of the figures of the "Islamic"golden age were non-muslims or heretics of one kind or another, in later periods they would have been "corrected" by orthodox islam and so never produce anything of worth.

As to why islam is so anti-thought, it has to do with the doctrine known as "occassionalism", which basically posits that there are no such things as natural laws, that everything that happens is directly willed by god, and that as a result looking for patterns in nature is not only futile, but blasphemous.

The Abbasid Caliphs during the Islamic Golden Age cared more about knowledge than converting people to a strict interpretation of Islam. In this quest for knowledge they built many universities and colleges where anyone can join and become a scholar. They also preached about the right to believe in anything you want if it didn't infringe on other people's rights.

>>2191291
Isn't that the same thing with European rennaisance? They copied Muslim's copied Greek/Persian works + copied Indian/Chinese works + the technologies.

>>2191231
Well, by definition, a golden age has to end someday.

I think the Mongol invasions ended up converting more people to Islam (the Mongols themselves) than killing them, but of course there's the fire, pillage, and rape that comes with it. They stopped roughly at Baghdad, right? That's an important city, but it could've been worse.

>>2191326
The difference is that europeans kicked on from the renaissance

>>2191326
Yes, Rome stole from Greece, Christians stole from Rome, Mongols stole from Asia, Muslims stole from the mongols, Europe and Christians stole from Muslims.

Apparently it is not stealing when Muslims don't do it.

>>2191336
>steal

This isn't how culture works. Muslamic civilization and western civilization are both "stolen" from Sumeria, the real question is in what you make of the culture you "steal".

>>2191329
Baghdad was in decline by the 10th century. Mongols were the final nail, that's all.