The “golden age” lasted until about 1100 when the head decided it was proper to destroy libraries, etc. After all, education that didn’t agree with the Koran was evil...and it continues today.
There never was a Muslim golden age. They conquered a number of great civilizations and enslaved the inhabitants. And it took them a while to grind down those civilizations.
As for universities, the earliest ones were in Christian countries, in the early middle ages. Which, in turn, went back to the philosophical schools of Athens and Rome.
A short summary of a long story.
They score below the west, so rather than improve themselves, they’ll flood us with migrants to bring us down too. Got it.
The Arab and Persian etc peoples are capable, its the hate-filled teachings of their Satan-worship cult that drag them down into the sewer
Followers of islam make Flat Earthers look intelligent.
But before that movement rose up, Islamic scientists and mathematicians created the base for much of our modern science. Indeed, the development of algebra and trigonometry--spurred on by the need to find the direction of the holy city of Mecca from anywhere in the world--became the basis for modern calculus. And they had a goods trade that was essentially second to none in the world (after all, the prophet Mohammed was a merchant based in Mecca for much of his early adult life)--indeed, Arab merchants set up trading posts all over the Middle East literally right behind the conquering armies.
Recent events in Jakarta demonstrate why this is impossible.
Because: Allah gave us the Koran, and that's all we need.
Ans it's almost true in a way. Because if the Koran taught them a philosophy of conquest, they don't have to develop the products of civilization, they just have to take them over.
First sentence of the first paragraph is taqyyia - read no further.
Bull Obama.
Period.
Goat doots.
Actually, this “golden age” started before the invention of islam and declined as islam invaded and destroyed countries and civilizations. There is nothing golden about barbarism.
Islamic scientific and cultural contributions are certainly a long time past. About 1100 AD Hassan bin Sabah, who inherited the Assassin Guild, enlightened Islamist societies to terrorism as foundational statecraft for political prosperity. Philosophical and religious lawyers retained their lives, and obtained support for and from dictators by backwards engineering the Koran into useful totalitarian heterodoxies. Concurrently, foundational thought including Jews, Christians and Muslims as People of the Book became hazardous. Concurrently, men of Saladin’s character, who Dante placed in the highest level of purgatory, disappeared from prominence. The Sufism of Saladin was guided into a form of Unitarianism and no longer stressed an individual relationship with God that could have not only directed followers to the true living God, but could have exalted individuals in society. Concurrently, extraordinary Arab achievements in mathematics, philosophy, science, and medicine submerged within authoritarian and feral societies. Omar Khayyam, Ibn al-Haytham, and Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Sina had no successors for uncompromising, independent thought. Someone else would have to prove causation, but such simultaneous extinctions do provide compelling evidence to me of Islam becoming a pervasive contagion subverting the Middle East.