A Shared Golden Age
By: Saulat Pervez Golden Age of Jewish Tolerance in Muslim Spain When the Muslims conquered Spain in 711 C.E., Jewish people were relieved from the persecution of their Visigoth Christian […]
A Shared Golden Age
By: Saulat Pervez Golden Age of Jewish Tolerance in Muslim Spain When the Muslims conquered Spain in 711 C.E., Jewish people were relieved from the persecution of their Visigoth Christian […]
Pakistani Nobel Laureate Dr. Abdus Salam on Decline of Science in Muslim World
Dr. Salam: “Islam was very strongly research-minded until about Year 1000 AD. Then there was a big battle between the Sufis and the theologians (established religious leaders). Theologians won that […]
Al-Andalus revisited: Why the values of the Muslim golden age are more important now than ever before
BY FAISAL J. ABBAS FOR ARAB NEWS Faisal Abbas is the Editor in Chief of the Arab News The scenes of awful terrorist attacks on people in the streets of […]
How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science
By Dennis Overbye Oct. 30, 2001 Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was still a young man when the Assassins made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. His hometown had been devastated by Mongol […]
Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world
By Olivia Sterns for CNN January 29, 2010 — In 9th century Spain, Muslim inventor Abbas ibn Firnas designed a flying machine — hundreds of years before da Vinci drew plans of […]
Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search For the period of Spanish cultural flourishing in the 17th century, see Spanish Golden Age. Main articles: History of the Jews in […]
Water innovations in the Muslim world: past glories and future outlook
by Rizwan Nawaz Tags: al-Jazari – Cordoba – Dr. Rizwan Nawaz – Pumps – Technology – From the eighth century onwards, Muslim societies extending from Cordoba in Spain to […]
The House of Wisdom: Baghdad’s Intellectual Powerhouse
By: Cem Nizamoglu The heyday of Baghdad was 1,200 years ago when it was the thriving capital of the Muslim world. It was home to the House of Wisdom, […]
What caused the decline of the Muslim Civilisation?
The historian and former banker, Benedikt Koehler, in his lecture on ‘Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism’ appears at a loss to explain what happened to the critical inquiry and dynamic underpinning that was the distinctive feature of the Early Islamic zeitgeist (watch from 49.05). A young Hamza Yusuf […]
From Baghdad to Barcelona: The Anxiety of Influence in the Transmission of the Greek and Arabic Sciences
By: Glen M. Cooper Drawing on Harold Bloom’s model of poetic influence and supersession in his famous book, “The Anxiety of Influence,” and considering several historical cases of cross-cultural […]
Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science
On the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason Hillel Ofek Contemporary Islam is not known for its engagement in the modern scientific project. But it is heir to a legendary “Golden Age” of Arabic science frequently invoked by commentators hoping to make Muslims and Westerners more respectful and […]
The Islamic ‘golden age’
NIDHAL GUESSOUM Published — Wednesday 13 January 2016 The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age,” during which scholarship and learning flourished across the Muslim world, lasted many centuries, and included the establishment of the world’s first universities. Today, however, Muslim-majority countries lag […]