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Is the Islamic Golden Age real?
It doesn't seem like anything new was discovered or invented, just some people reading a collection of writings looted from India or elsewhere.
Honestly not trying to go all /pol/ with this.
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>>2264585
Well, it's a relative golden age. They mainly managed to preserve older scientific advances, but didn't do much om their own to advance science
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>>2264585
Yes
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>>2264605
>They mainly managed to preserve older scientific advances, but didn't do much om their own to advance science
Other way around, actually. While some important Classics filtered into Western Europe early through Islamic lands, most of it was still around in Western monasteries. It's their original works that are most remembered.
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>>2264585
There were two phases after the House of Wisdom was constructed during the Abbasid era.
First phase was the translation of old scriptures from Greek, Persian, Indian, etc into Arabic which was done during the time of al-Rashid, so people had reading material.
Then was the phase of funding the school and applying tutors (mostly older students from the Sassanid academies) during al-Ma'mun's reign, that would help train new Arab and Persian scholars/inventors that would stand for a wide array of discoveries in most scientific fields.
So yes.
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>>2264585
Gee anon, how come Ibn Al-Haytham was named the Father of Modern Optics?
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>>2264605
This, also the sack of Baghdad by the mongols was one of the biggest punches for knowledge in the medieval ages
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>>2264585
Yes, but this triggers people who look at history through a modern lens and cannot let go of their own personal biases.
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>>2264585
It was a period of great prosperity for the Islamic World. You can call it a Golden Age
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>>2264585
Islam caused stagnation in a former progressive cultural sphere.
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>>2266988
>Byzantine/Persian Middle East 600 CE
>progressive cultural sphere
lol
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>>2266988
Islam was captured by the same impulses that drove the Spanish Inquisition. Islam never got past that point, the West by which I mean Christian Europe escaped a similar fate because of the Reformation.
Yes Luther, Zwingli, Knox Wesley et all had a part in freeing Europe from the kind of religious dictatorship that has afflicted Islam for the past thoudand years.
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>>2264722
YOUR NOT THE BOSS OF ME NOW!
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