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> Medieval Arabs Talk about an oxymoron since the Middle Ages were actually the Islamic Golden Age.
by curiousgal 3y ago
> Medieval Arabs
Talk about an oxymoron since the Middle Ages were actually the Islamic Golden Age.
- flextheruler 3y agoIsn’t medieval just a time period for after the fall of Roman Empire and before the renaissance
- karatinversion 3y agoThe complaint is that these delimiters are really only meaningful for Western Europe - the delimiting events both happen in Italy. One of the running themes of early medieval Arab history is, after all, wars with the (eastern) Roman empire. So it's a bit like talking about Elizabethan Turkey, or Warring States-era Brazil.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoThe fall of the Roman Empire basically allowed the Islamic Empire to exist. Even if Muhammad had arisen while the Roman Empire still existed he would have been limited to the greater part of the Arabic peninsula. https://imgur.com/bHLF70L https://imgur.com/bHLF70L
- karatinversion 3y agoPerhaps I can interest you in this map of the Roman Empire from 565AD, sixty years before the Muslim conquests: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4KJUSTINIAN.png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4KJUSTINIAN.png
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoVery nice. The Romans were no longer dividing Iraq in half, thus severing Persia from Arabia.
- eesmith 3y agoThe medieval period of Arab history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arabs#Medieval_period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arabs#Medieval_... See also the results of a Google Scholar search at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Medieval+Arabs https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Medieval+Arabs "Religious influences on medieval Arabic philology" "Mediterranean in the Works of the Early Medieval Arabic Geographers and Historians" "Glaucoma in the Medieval Arabic World" "Stars and Numbers: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Medieval Arab and Western Worlds" EDIT: also Medieval Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa#Medieval_and_Early_Modern_(6th_to_18th_centuries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa#Medieval_and... including Medieval Somalia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medieval_Somalia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medieval_Somalia
- ROTMetro 3y agoAnd the Islamic Golden Age itself is an oxymoron as much of the historical knowledge was Greek (large parts of these conquered lands had sizable Greek populations) and the many contemporary contributors were either non-muslim or raised in conquered cultures that had not been fully assimilated by Islam but instead maintained many of their pre-conquered traits.
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