Factors that lead to the excellent of Islamic Civilisation

ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate
1. “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
1. -By the middle of the 8th Century
Muslim world became an intellectual center
1. In science, philosophy, medicine and education.
established the House of Wisdom in Baghdad
1. both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars sought to gather all the world’s knowledge
  1. cultures which collected, synthesized and significantly advanced the knowledge gained from all other ancient civilizations
    1. ancient Roman, Chinese, Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Greek and Byzantine civilizations
Muslims took the best that each system had to offer
1. 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
1. 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”

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