Islamic Golden Age

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The Islamic Golden Age was a flourishing period of intellectual, scientific, cultural, and economic advancement in the Islamic world, roughly from the 8th to 14th centuries, that profoundly influenced global knowledge and civilization.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural flourishing ⓘ
historical period ⓘ
scientific flourishing ⓘ
associatedLanguage Arabic ⓘ
Greek (translated) ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
Syriac ⓘ
associatedReligion Islam ⓘ
centerOfActivity Baghdad ⓘ
Basra ⓘ
Bukhara ⓘ
linked to: Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Cairo ⓘ
Córdoba ⓘ
Damascus ⓘ
Isfahan ⓘ
Kufa ⓘ
Nishapur ⓘ
Rayy ⓘ
Samarkand ⓘ
culturalCharacteristic construction of monumental mosques and madrasas ⓘ
development of adab prose ⓘ
elaboration of Islamic art and calligraphy ⓘ
flourishing of Arabic literature ⓘ
growth of Sufi poetry ⓘ
declineFactor Mongol invasions ⓘ
linked to: Mongol conquests

Sack of Baghdad in 1258 ⓘ
political fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ
shifts in trade routes ⓘ
economicCharacteristic development of early banking practices ⓘ
integration of trade routes from Iberia to India ⓘ
use of bills of exchange (sakk) ⓘ
fieldAdvanced Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) ⓘ
Sufism ⓘ
agronomy ⓘ
alchemy ⓘ
algebra ⓘ
architecture ⓘ
astronomy ⓘ
cartography ⓘ
chemistry ⓘ
economics ⓘ
engineering ⓘ
geography ⓘ
geometry ⓘ
hadith studies ⓘ
history ⓘ
jurisprudence (fiqh) ⓘ
literature ⓘ
logic ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ
medicine ⓘ
music theory ⓘ
optics ⓘ
pharmacology ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
physics ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
theology (kalam) ⓘ
trigonometry ⓘ
influenced European Renaissance ⓘ
linked to: Renaissance

Scholastic philosophy ⓘ
cartography in Europe ⓘ
development of modern algebra ⓘ
development of modern medicine ⓘ
development of optics ⓘ
medieval European science ⓘ
navigation techniques ⓘ
influencedBy Greek philosophy ⓘ
Hellenistic science ⓘ
Indian astronomy ⓘ
Indian mathematics ⓘ
Persian scholarship ⓘ
Syriac Christian scholarship ⓘ
keyDevelopment advances in spherical trigonometry ⓘ
codification of Islamic law schools ⓘ
compilation of comprehensive medical encyclopedias ⓘ
development of algebra as a distinct discipline ⓘ
development of paper-making in the Islamic world ⓘ
expansion of long-distance trade networks ⓘ
improvements in astronomical observatories ⓘ
preservation of Hellenistic science and philosophy ⓘ
refinement of experimental methods in optics ⓘ
systematic hospitals (bimaristans) ⓘ
systematic translation of Greek works into Arabic ⓘ
urbanization and growth of cosmopolitan cities ⓘ
mainRegion Al-Andalus ⓘ
linked to: Andalusia

Central Asia ⓘ
Islamic world ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ
Persia ⓘ
linked to: Persians

South Asia ⓘ
majorDynasty Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ
Ayyubid dynasty ⓘ
Buyid dynasty ⓘ
Fatimid Caliphate ⓘ
Ghaznavid dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Ghaznavid Empire

Mamluk Sultanate ⓘ
Samanid dynasty ⓘ
linked to: Samanid Empire

Seljuk Empire ⓘ
Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba ⓘ
notableInstitution Al-Azhar Mosque-University ⓘ
linked to: Al-Azhar Mosque

Al-Qarawiyyin University ⓘ
Bayt al-Hikma (Baghdad) ⓘ
linked to: House of Wisdom

House of Wisdom ⓘ
libraries of Córdoba ⓘ
notableScholar Al-Biruni ⓘ
Al-Farabi ⓘ
Al-Ghazali ⓘ
linked to: al‑Ghazali

Al-Idrisi ⓘ
Al-Jazari ⓘ
Al-Khwarizmi ⓘ
Al-Kindi ⓘ
Al-Masudi ⓘ
Al-Muqaddasi ⓘ
Al-Razi (Rhazes) ⓘ
Al-Sufi ⓘ
Al-Tabari ⓘ
Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) ⓘ
Ibn Battuta ⓘ
Ibn Hazm ⓘ
Ibn Jubayr ⓘ
Ibn Khaldun ⓘ
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) ⓘ
linked to: Averroes

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) ⓘ
linked to: Avicenna

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) ⓘ
Ibn al-Jawzi ⓘ
Ibn al-Nafis ⓘ
Jabir ibn Hayyan ⓘ
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi ⓘ
Omar Khayyam ⓘ
timeEnd 14th century ⓘ
timeStart 8th century ⓘ

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