THE IMMENSE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ISLAMIC GOLDEN AGE TO THE BUILDING OF MODERN CIVILIZATION

The House Of Wisdom: Abbasid Caliphate; Baghdad (8th. Century - 1258)

The Islamic Golden Age was a period in Islamic history that took place during what is referred to by Europeans as the Middle Ages.

Under the Abbasid Caliphate (the Sunni Caliphate, based in Baghdad), there flourished a centre of learning and study called The House Of Wisdom - where great scholars from all over the (known) world were invited to study, explore and share their knowledge and wisdom in every field of academia...



Ancient knowledge and wisdom from, for example, the Greek Philosophy, was saved and preserved there, and great breakthroughs in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts were made during the centuries that The House Of Wisdom existed; knowledge that was the foundation of the modern age...

The House Of Wisdom was destroyed during the siege and sack of Baghdad by the Mongols, in 1258...

But much of the knowledge and wisdom preserved and discovered there remains...

What's unfair is, that with the decline of the Islamic world's influence, it is common today that this wisdom is assumed to be of (relatively recent) Western European innovation - and the Golden Age of Islamic intellectual and artistic genius is overlooked...

This video addresses that error...