Why Islam Didn't Keep Up
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In this episode, we discuss why the factors that enabled the West’s radical transformation had absolutely no effect on Islamic society, despite its being, at the time, more highly developed, more cosmopolitan, more educated, much wealthier, and militarily more powerful than the West. Instead, Islam’s success, prosperity, and power slowly unraveled, it lost its economic and military preeminence, and all because of an ivory-tower dispute among its theologians.
From the second half of the eighth century to end of the eleventh century, Arabic was the scientific, the progressive language of mankind.
Muslim philosophers, mathematicians, physicians, and astronomers all made notable advances in their fields, and their works were translated into Latin (and often into Hebrew as well) and studied in Europe.
The West, in contrast, was small, poor, backward, divided by schism and heresy, disputed between two emperors and for a while, two or even three popes.
A visitor from outer space who would have surveyed the world’s societies at that time would certainly have concluded that Islam was the most likely to dominate the world for many centuries to come.
But that didn't happen. So what that brought about the decline of Islam's Golden Age?
In this episode, we discuss why the factors that enabled the West’s radical transformation had absolutely no effect on Islamic society, despite its being, at the time, more highly developed, more cosmopolitan, more educated, much wealthier, and militarily more powerful than the West. Instead, Islam’s success, prosperity, and power slowly unraveled, it lost its economic and military preeminence, and all because of an ivory-tower dispute among its theologians.
From the second half of the eighth century to end of the eleventh century, Arabic was the scientific, the progressive language of mankind.
Muslim philosophers, mathematicians, physicians, and astronomers all made notable advances in their fields, and their works were translated into Latin (and often into Hebrew as well) and studied in Europe.
The West, in contrast, was small, poor, backward, divided by schism and heresy, disputed between two emperors and for a while, two or even three popes.
A visitor from outer space who would have surveyed the world’s societies at that time would certainly have concluded that Islam was the most likely to dominate the world for many centuries to come.
But that didn't happen. So what that brought about the decline of Islam's Golden Age?
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