Posted on 08/20/2021 9:17:35 PM PDT by Cronos
Ibn Khaldun, one of the best known Tunisian historiographer and one of the leading Islamic Philosopher in 15th century summarized very well in his book Al-Muqaddimah the fallacy of the Arab Golden Age:
“It is noteworthy how civilization always collapsed in places the Arabs took over and conquered, and how such settlements were depopulated and the (very) earth there turned into something that was no (longer) earth. The Yemen where (the Arabs) live is in ruins, except for a few cities. Persian civilization in the Arab 'Iraq is likewise completely ruined. The same applies to contemporary Syria. When the Banu Hilal and the Banu Sulaym pushed through (from their homeland) to Ifrigiyah and the Maghrib in (the beginning of) the fifth [eleventh] century and struggled there for three hundred and fifty years, they attached themselves to (the country), and the flat territory in (the Maghrib) was completely ruined. formerly, the whole region between the Sudan and the Mediterranean had been settled. This (fact) is attested by the relics of civilization there, such as monuments, architectural sculpture, and the visible remains of villages and hamlets. Furthermore, as we have stated before,147 it is the nature of (the Arabs) not only to appropriate the possessions of other people but, beyond that, to refrain from exercising any (power of) arbitration among them and to fail to keep them from (fighting) each other”.
Syria was developed by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and then Byzantines, Persia was an empire and had thousands years of history and culture. Egypt was the cradle of civilization for thousands of years before Arabs took over. Spain was Roman province with very sophisticated infrastructure left by the Romans
Link takes you nowhere.
Interesting
Islamic Civilization seems to only be stable under a tyrant who uses brute Force to maintain control. Attempts to bring in Democracy or open up free thinking are simply incompatible with the Koran and it Hadith's.
The guy interviewed one of the Khans in his day.
Don’t buy it. Here’s a free version
https://asadullahali.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/ibn_khaldun-al_muqaddimah.pdf
Seems he was only blaming the Arabs.
Islam, meh, not so much.
How ‘bout Afghanistan, Pakistan, London, Minneapolis etc.?
bkmk
Thank you!
They have been Arabized.
Afghanistan was Buddhist and a center of Indic and then Indo-Greek, Kushan etc. civilization before Islam.
Pakistan was a Hindu center of civilization before Islam
Islam is a bandit culture. It’s all about conquering others.
Notice Islam’s “Golden Age” ended when their expansion was stopped, and with it the supply of loot (and slaves who knew how to run a civilization).
Bkmk
I’d forgotten. It wasn’t one of the Khans. It was Tamerlane (Timur). Quite an illustrious life.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Khaldun/Later-years
The civilization of the Persian Empire was mostly created by others (Babylonians, Syrians, etc.) before the Persian Empire was created. The Persians were good at ruling a large empire but their cultural contribution seems to have been limited.
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