[CatoRenasci]

Actually, most of the strides culture attributed to Islam came from cultures subjected to Islam: Persia, India (mathematics), Egypt, Christian Asia Minor and Greece. Islam's cultural record is really pretty bare when you strip out the products of conquered peoples.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Islam's cultural record is really pretty bare when you strip out the products of conquered peoples . . . most of the strides culture attributed to Islam came from cultures subjected to Islam: Persia, India (mathematics), Egypt, Christian Asia Minor and Greece.

Hmmm . . .

[SauronOfMordor]

Actually, most of the strides culture attributed to Islam came from cultures subjected to Islam: Persia, India (mathematics), Egypt, Christian Asia Minor and Greece. Islam's cultural record is really pretty bare when you strip out the products of conquered peoples.

Islam's decline is coincident with it running out of conquerable civilized regions. During its "Golden Age", it had a steady influx of captive people from established civilizations who had experience in running a working civilization.

[SauronOfMordor]

Islam's cultural record is really pretty bare when you strip out the products of conquered peoples.

You can actually date the point where Islam started its decline: it was when they stopped getting an influx of conquered people who knew how to run a civilization. Islam is culture that revolves around fighting and conquering. As long as there was an influx of loot and prisoners, they were OK. Then they went into stagnation for hundreds of years.

In modern times, the Islamic countries which had oil deposits experienced a brief period of prosperity living off the loot generated by infidel oil companies, but it looks like that will end soon, as their unproductive population expands to the point where they consume all the oil wealth