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Aristotle and Islam's Golden Age - related?

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What is the connection between ancient Greece and the Islamic world durring Europe's Dark Ages? It is the philosophy of Aristotle and the ideas of Pagan Greece. While Europe lost these ideas, Islam preserved them and thrived.

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Wonderful! ( 1 year ago by meachanDEE)

Wonderful!

The Ottoman Empire ... ( 1 year ago by genius2687)

The Ottoman Empire collapsed because it was not secular.
Any society that rules on the integration of religion and state is doomed to fail.

It is true that ... ( 1 year ago by genius2687)

It is true that scientific knowledge greatly advanced in the Islamic empires from 700-1200. However, this was something in spite of Islam and not rooted in Islam.
Islam conquered the peoples of these countries, made them dhimmis, and exploited the dhimmis knowledge (which was greater than that of the Muslims) to make their inventions.

Indeed, many of the ... ( 1 year ago by genius2687)

Indeed, many of the Muslim scientists of the Golden Age were forced into conversion, or desendants of those forced into conversion who still valued science over the tenants of religion.

Ottomans and ... ( 1 year ago by SultanBorat)

Ottomans and Byzantines are the same, They ruled over largely illiterate and poorly educated populations and used religion to the strings of the people when desired.
Thats why Kemal said Turks needed to force the government out of their religion. Radical muslins are just the same as radical Christians they want a state ruled by clerics and they don't want people to evaluate the true meanings of the faith.

The city you talk ... ( 1 year ago by CrazyShakaZulu)

The city you talk about was in ancient Persia I think

Ancient Persia as ... ( 1 year ago by cropperb)

Ancient Persia as opposed to modern Iraq?

yea. I read about ... ( 1 year ago by CrazyShakaZulu)

yea. I read about it actually. Some persian lord wanted it. Persia had an enlightened age after the Arab conquest. Also a lil' story about that book. The ruler payed the book in copper instead of gold. The author who I sadly forget the ruler was 3 times 3 times 3 times 3. Which basically meant he was cheap in ancient Persian mathematical terms

it's sad that the ... ( 1 year ago by qadi0)

it's sad that the muslims were so great during that age and just declined. even prophet muhammad (pbuh) said " the ink of the scholar is more precious then the blood of the martyr ". if the muslims kept religion and ruling the state seperate like the westerners did they would've been good. and i'm a muslim. however religion can sometimes be good in solving some problems.

"however religion ... ( 1 year ago by cropperb)

"however religion can sometimes be good in solving some problems."
o_0 ?

Aristotle has been ... ( 1 year ago by tigerfish03)

Aristotle has been expressed to a larger extent in the West (Europe created the modern world) than in the East simply because Aristotle is from the West and NOT the East. And please explain how Africa today is more advanced than the Middle East.

"And please explain ... ( 1 year ago by cropperb)

"And please explain how Africa today is more advanced than the Middle East."
Measured by economic output, the mid East is far behind Africa.

very good and new ... ( 1 year ago by unbehagen1000)

very good and new for me
i always thought the oriental sultanism
and the mentality created by sultan-tyrans made the middle east backward
and im still not really convinced
could it be that their mentality is the cause which made them suck up
islams docmas so thoroughly
in short:
you say islam's influence grew thats why aristotle's influence vanished
but why did islam's influence grow? Why not aristotle's influence?

name: Ibn sina or ... ( 1 year ago by jigarsalman)

name: Ibn sina or Avicenna
work: the canon of medicine
emphasis: a standard medical text at many Islamic and European universities up until the early 19th century.
purpose: 4:17 "studied aristotle and began, to make a long story short, started the renaissance in europe."?
Search for these names:Al Biruni. Alhacen. Abulcasis. Averroes. Al Razi. Al Farabi. Al Kindi. Al-Jazari. Geber. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. [read their thoughts and comments]

islamic golden age ... ( 1 year ago by jigarsalman)

islamic golden age did not follow the footsteps of aristole and greeks blindy, but challenged them, they were seekers of truth, here is a fact to prove that... from Jafar al Sadiq[702-765], the teacher of Geber[father of chemistry].
"I wonder how a man like Aristotle could say that in the world there are only four elements - Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. The Earth is not an element. It contains many elements. Each metal, which is in the earth, is an element."

i would love and ... ( 1 year ago by jigarsalman)

i would love and await for your comments

The House of wisdom ... ( 9 months ago by rencrow)

The House of wisdom you spoke about was in the city of Baghdad which would eventually get sacked by Hulagu Khan and his mongol army in 1258.

The common mistake ... ( 8 months ago by jokerjay)

The common mistake is link everything back to Greece. The Greek knowledge base didn't spring from nowhere. The scientific knowledge base of Egypt is far older and didn't stay or originate in one place. In ancient times Arabia ISN'T seperate from Africa. It was still part of many African empires. Greece isn't distant from the Middle East, or Africa. Imagine a collection of ideas, influencing, merging and moving in various directions and you have a more accurate picture of ancient knowledge.

All I can say there ... ( 7 months ago by suecoleoriginal)

All I can say there has been a seperation between church and state that took so long to establish we can not lose it now

...Should a scholar ... ( 7 months ago by zanos)

...Should a scholar work out a doctrinal reasoning from the Quran.Ibn rushd talked about rationality for reasoning of a doctrine. The mind was then a tool for knowledge, used to reason in his presenc but ine arthly matters also. Hence we should make use of those who have come before - all whilst remaining in the islamic sphere. Averroes deduced that the order from allahw as to use rationality to get knowledge. This wouldn't have gone down to well with the wahabi's hence the propaganda;)

...Should a scholar ... ( 7 months ago by zanos)

To say that islam ... ( 7 months ago by zanos)

To say that islam stole ideas from greek philosophy is to miss the point. Averroes (Ibn Rushd) did look at aristotle. He even had conflicts of interest with Al-Ghazali. However, the beauty of islam is that it is as complicated as you make it. The divine remains there, and they both believed in it..