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Oh, please. The Middle East - BEFORE Islam - was very advanced with regard to science, math and medicine. And not even in the more remote parts of the Middle East or Southeast Asia: even Greek pysicians - such as St. Luke - were legend.

What Islam did was take over advanced cultures and kill them. I would say that advanced cultures had an average of 100 years before Islam stifled them.

Some of them outside of the native territory of Islam may have survived longer, but they were under assault: Spain, because of its internal disorganization, was conquered by recently converted and not very zealous Muslims, but then these Muslims themselves were soon conquered by fanatical North African nutcases. The "Golden Age" existed only as long as Islamic rulers could be paid off enough to let the members of the native culture(Christian, Jewish or even pagan) continue to function.

Islam is an insane death cult.