How to Revive the Golden Era of Islam

From its beginnings in Mecca to its extensive empire across the Middle East, Asia, North Africa and parts of Europe, the spread of Islam in the late 600’s and 700’s A.C.E has drawn much attention. The spread of Islam began when Prophet Muhammad (579-632) (pbuh) started preaching the revelation he claimed to have received from God. Muslim dynasties were soon established and eventually the Abbasid Dynasty ruled over the vast Islamic empire, and through wealth in money and knowledge, the Muslim world experience it's Golden Age. The people of the Islamic world created numerous sophisticated centers of culture and science with far-reaching trade networks. The Islamic world achieved its Golden Age through its advancements in medicine, math and

Islam, meaning submission or submitting oneself fully to God, is one of the world’s largely practiced religions. Those that participate and practice the Islamic religion

One of the many ways that Islam extended its empire was through the educational advancement

Two major ways they could be in a golden age was from their literature and art. Since in the beginning of the rise of the Islamic empire, they would only write poetry. As said in document 3 “As salt resolved

Document 1 explains why Muslims from the Islamic Empire preserved its knowledge and built upon it. Muslims advanced in science because they used reasoning to support their claims. Wealthy people and rulers wanted qualified people to do work for them. Religious people wanted math mathematicians to calculate when they needed to pray. Astronomers were hired to find out where Mecca

Mid seventh century Islam, also know as the golden age was a time of innovation, trade, and success. Why was this the Golden age above all other times? Well that’s easy. The golden age was the time when Islam established one of its biggest empires in History, which would later go on to succeed in all fields from math, to law, to industry etc (Doc 1, pg. 11). The biggest components of this great success, though would probably be the advancements in Math, Science and Trade. The new things that people were able to discover using simple math and science not only benefited peoples simple knowledge, but it benefitted the country as a whole. Math and Science were something that not everyone had access to, but since Islam did it benefited trade as well, which would later become what connected all of humanity.

In the 7th century A.D., Islamic faith was charging through the Middle East. Many reasons are to credit for the rise of Islamic faith. However the muslims attacks on other nations, Islamic beliefs and trade were the key contributors into the rise of the Islamic religion. There army would lay waste to other nations.Also the Islamic beliefs were intriguing and the city of Mecca was in the middle of a bunch of trade routes which helped spread the religion.

During the Golden Age of Islam, scientific and mathematical ideas were developed, later spreading through different regions. There were numerous factors that helped contribute to the spread of knowledge and ideas. Three primary factors were the education system, the production of paper and the prosperity of unification of oral language.

The expansions of Islam from the 9th century until the 12th century saw science being developed further to explain unknown phenomena. This was known as the Islamic golden age. The early scholars of Islam believed in enlightenment and established wise houses of learning or temples. Cities such as Baghdad became centres of knowledge and contained a wealth of knowledge. It showed great advances medicine, astronomy and agriculture. The knowledge that was gained was seen as the will of Allah and that the God of Islam has allowed them to learn. At this time there was little distinction or variation in philosophy, science and theology. There was no clear rift. The holistic view brought many advancements as peer discussion, citations and validity testing becoming more common and socially accepted. This golden age theory was named

Muslims both preserved existing knowledge and extended it, which allowed Muslims to make their great contributions. Muslims had many practical reasons for learning, including, the advancement of science, qualified physicians to treat illness, and mathematicians and astronomers to calculate time. “Muslims had practical reasons for supporting the advancement of science. Rulers wanted qualified physicians treating their ills...relied on mathematicians and astronomers to calculate the times of prayer…” (Doc. 1) Around A.D. 476, Europe entered an era where scholarship suffered,

Chapter 14 in the book Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective of the Past by Herrry H. Bentley and Herbert F. Ziegler is mainly about Muhammad, the prophet, and his world, the expansion of Islam, economy and society of the early Islamic world, and its values and cultural exchanges.

The concern about life is a main human characteristic. No matter if his concern is concentrated in himself or in persons or things that surround him and constitute his environment, everybody wants to know why people, himself included, behave the way they behave. Everybody, also, wants to improve his behavior, so as to live in harmony with himself and the society.

The region of the Middle East and its inhabitants have always been a wonder to the Europeans, dating back to the years before the advent of Islam and the years following the Arab conquest. Today, the Islamic world spreads from the corners of the Philippines to the far edges of Spain and Central Africa. Various cultures have adopted the Islamic faith, and this blending of many different cultures has strengthened the universal Islamic culture. The religion of Islam has provided a new meaning to the lives of many people around the world. In the Islamic world, the religion defines and enriches culture and as a result the culture gives meaning to the individual. Islam is not only a religion, it is in its own way a culture. It may be this very

During the Golden age of Islam, achievements in mathematics, medicines and astronomy and many other topics were remarkable and significantly changed Wester Europe and later society. For Muslim, studying science provided knowledge to follow proper path in life and serve God’s purpose. Now, their discovered or created systems create our basic life and develop advanced technologies and strategies such as building bridges, sky towers, computing variety calculation for global economy, and doing pharmaceutical research. We have to appreciate what they have done, and their contribution on our current

Islam is not a new religion but the final culmination and fulfillment of the same basic truth that God revealed through all His prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world's population, Islam is not just a personal religion but a complete way of living. Over a billion people from all races, nationalities and cultures across the globe are Muslim--from the rice farms of Indonesia to the deserts in the heart of Africa; from the skyscrapers of New York to the Bedouin tents in Arabia.