1.2 Developments in Dar al-Islam 1200-1450
Golden Age
House of Wisdom
Baghdad
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Ibn Sina
Cultural Transfers (diffusion)
Ancient Greek revival (Aristotle)
*Know serval Islamic inventions
1.A: Identify a historical concept, development, or process.
1.B: Explain a historical concept, development, or process.
4.A: Identify and describe a historical context for a specific historical development or process.
Great empires throughout history have sponsored learning & scholarship. Without intellectual advances, powerful civilizations would not stay powerful for long as more technologically advanced societies would threaten their economic success & security. Early Islamic leaders understood this and supported education & scholarship in their territories, whch became known as the Islamic golden age.
Islamic Golden Age
Significant Technologies or Ideas Diffused Through the Islamic World:
Islamic Innovation
Islamic Innovation
Islamic Innovation
Islamic Innovation
Islamic Innovation
Borrowed from Eastern Europe
Borrowed from South Asia (Hindu culture)
Borrowed from China
Borrowed from Hindu & Chinese merchants
Islamic Innovation
Borrowed from various Asian & African locations
Borrowed from China
Borrowed from China
Preserved from Ancient Greece
Western Roman Empire, these philosophers’ ideas vanished from Western Europe. However, the ideas were not lost to history because they were stored and studied in the libraries of the Islamic world (also the Christian Byzantine Empire).
The Transfer of Islamic Knowledge Helped Revitalize Europe
European scholars used knowledge & technology from contacts in the Islamic world to forge a new path for Europe in the last few centuries of the Middle Ages.