what are the biggest memes in history? I'll start off

>>2507822
>I'm going to act like an entire documented period never happened because im butthurt about islam due to modern politics
you have no place in history.

We all know how these threads go

>It never happened
Yes it did look at all this evidence
>Okay but they werent muslims
Yes they were
>Okay but they weren't arabs
and?
>uhhh, IT NEVER HAPPENED

Since a lot of what I've read here seems to hinge on the "Islamic" character of the age, I suppose I'll try my hand at explaining it. Others have already pointed out that the term was a Western concept first, so I'll say the more accurate term is Islamicate Golden Age to start. No serious historian considers the age a myth, and the idea that all of it was merely stolen or a continuation and pale imitation of Byzantine and Sassanid intellectualism only exists among certain political circles. So until we start seeing serious papers defending this notion, that's all there is to it.

Now then, to begin with, the Islamic Golden Age rides on the shoulders of its great thinkers who inspired Latin thought in the 12th Century Renaissance and beyond. Almost to a fault, these were polymaths who made their living at some point or another as religious judges the same way many pre-Renaissance Latin thinkers were priests. The intellectual tradition of these men comes from their mobility, their drive to wander and learn from multiple teachers and to acquire in text where they can't travel. And this tradition comes directly from early Muslim Hadith scholarship, a form of intellectual piety where Muslims would travel and seek out masters who would teach them important sayings of Muhammad and his companions as a way to bring themselves closer to the theoretical purity of the first Muslim generation.

This is the 'Islamic' character of this intellectual period, and why it did not happen in the three centuries before Islam or the first century and a half after its first coming. The intellectual tradition of the golden age is directly related to the religion's development in the 8th and 9th century, and when the religion changed and this tradition disappears starting in the 12th century, a slow decline becomes apparent.

>>2507822

HOW MUCH ARE YOU BEING PAID TO SPAM THREADS AGAINST NATIONAL SOCIALISM, ADOLF HITLER, MOHAMMEDANISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND THEISM IN GENERAL, EVERY DAY —OR ARE YOU DOING IT FROM YOUR OWN JEWISH COMPULSION?

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>>2507822

Still unsurpassed in terms of meme empireness

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>>2507833
>>2507862

stay triggered muhammed

the 80s is definitely one of the biggest memes ever created

>>2507833
OP BTFO