“Q: Have you written anything on the Islamic “golden age” or the Christian “dark

–“Q: Have you written anything on the Islamic “golden age” or the Christian “dark age”?”–

Nothing like a substantive analysis, just short FB or twitter posts to countersignal false claims by all parties. Catherine Nixey’s book is the best on christianity, there are endless sources on the islamic golden age and how quickly it came to an end. Wikipedia entry’s long but it’s correct.

WHEN
—“Khan (2003) identifies the proper golden age as being the two centuries between 750 and 950, arguing that the beginning loss of territories under Harun al-Rashid worsened after the death of al-Ma’mun in 833, and that the crusades in the 12th century resulted in a weakening of the Islamic empire from which it never recovered.”–

WHY (Greek Knowledge)
–“The golden age is considered to have come into existence through a gigantic endeavor to acquire and translate the ancient sciences of the Greeks between the eighth and ninth centuries. The translations era was followed by two centuries of splendid original thinking and contributions, and is known as the “golden age” of Islamic science. The era after this period is conventionally known as the “age of decline.”–

END (Fundamentalism)
–“Economic historian Joel Mokyr has argued that Islamic philosopher al-Ghazali (1058–1111), the author of The Incoherence of the Philosophers, “was a key figure in the decline in Islamic science” and that this led to a cultural shift shunning away from scientific thinking.”–

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