Concept
Islamic Golden Age
Overview
The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, dated from the 8th century CE to the 14th century. The period is understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786–809), with the establishment of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, one of the world’s largest cities at the time. The institution attracted scholars from across the Muslim world to translate the classical knowledge of the known world into Arabic and later into Persian as well. In addition to Baghdad, the intellectual and cultural activity also flourished in other urban centers of the medieval Islamic world, including Cairo, and Umayyad Córdoba (capital of Al-Andalus), as well as Damascus, Nishapur, Samarkand, Ghazni, Kairouan, and Fez, and in later centuries, Nasrid Granada.
The period is said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate following the Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258. Select scholars extend the end of the golden age to around 1350, thereby including the Timurid Renaissance. Others extend it to the 15th century, including the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, whose court remained an important centre of scholarship, culture and literature, or even to the 16th century, incorporating the rise of the Islamic Gunpowder Empires.
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Now this is called a city, and the society thereof a political society; for those who think that the principles of a political, a regal, a family, and a herile government are the same are mistaken, while they suppose that each of these differ in the numbers to whom their power extends, but not in their constitution: so that with them a herile government is one composed of a very few, a domestic of more, a civil and…
Aristotle, Politics
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They would also have abundance of clothing, and bedding, and dwellings, and utensils either capable of standing on the fire or not; for the plastic and weaving arts do not require any use of iron: and God has given these two arts to man in order to provide him with all such things, that, when reduced to the last extremity, the human race may still grow and increase. Hence in those days mankind were not very poor…
Plato, Laws
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Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To him came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some…
Plato, Phaedrus
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Philosophers who discussed Islamic Golden Age
- Avicenna
- Galen
- Mulla Sadra
- Ibn Hazm
- Al-Farabi
- Maimonides
- Plato
- Renaissance
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Islam
- Abu Bakr al-Razi
- Miskawayh
- Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi
- Al-Ma'arri
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- Muqaddimah
- Yale University Press
- Ibn Tufayl
- 'Aql
- Fiqh
- Avicenna
- BBC News
- Persian language
- Book of Optics
- Genetics
- Galen
- Historiography
- Hippocrates
- Homer
- Philosophy
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Deferent and epicycle
- The Canon of Medicine
- India
- Isaac Newton
- Al-Ghazali
- Iberian Peninsula
- Aleppo
- Rumi
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.