Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Factors that lead to the excellent of Islamic
Civilisation
- ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate
- “The ink of a scholar is more holy than the blood of a martyr”, stressing the value and importance of
knowledge.
- the transfer of the capital from Damascus to Baghdad
- -By the middle of the 8th Century
- Muslim world became an intellectual center
- In science, philosophy, medicine and education.
- established the House of Wisdom in Baghdad
- both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars sought to gather all the world’s knowledge
- cultures which collected, synthesized and significantly advanced the knowledge gained from all
other ancient civilizations
- ancient Roman, Chinese, Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Greek and Byzantine civilizations
- Muslims took the best that each system had to offer
- ot only streamlined it into a unified scientific model that became the basis of today’s modern science,
but also added to – and expanded greatly on – each distinctive field of study.
- Muslim universities of those days led the world in learning and research
- hey did not discriminate between different cultures and their collective bases of knowledge, and rarely
banned any discussions of ideologies or cultures because they were deemed “Un-Islamic”