Islamic Golden Age

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The Islamic Golden Age was a flourishing period of intellectual, scientific, cultural, and economic advancement in the Islamic world, roughly from the 8th to 14th centuries, that profoundly influenced global knowledge and civilization.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural flourishing
historical period
scientific flourishing
associatedLanguage Arabic
Greek (translated)
Persian
Syriac
associatedReligion Islam
centerOfActivity Baghdad
Basra
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
surface form: Bukhara

Cairo
Cordoba (historical)
surface form: Córdoba

Damascus
Isfahan
Kufa
Nishapur
Rayy
Samarkand
culturalCharacteristic construction of monumental mosques and madrasas
development of adab prose
elaboration of Islamic art and calligraphy
flourishing of Arabic literature
growth of Sufi poetry
declineFactor Mongol conquests
surface form: Mongol invasions

Sack of Baghdad (1258)
surface form: Sack of Baghdad in 1258

political fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate
shifts in trade routes
economicCharacteristic development of early banking practices
integration of trade routes from Iberia to India
use of bills of exchange (sakk)
fieldAdvanced Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir)
Sufism
agronomy
alchemy
algebra
architecture
astronomy
cartography
chemistry
economics
engineering
geography
geometry
hadith studies
history
jurisprudence (fiqh)
literature
logic
mathematics
medicine
music theory
optics
pharmacology
philosophy
physics
poetry
theology (kalam)
trigonometry
influenced Renaissance
surface form: European Renaissance

Scholastic philosophy
cartography in Europe
development of modern algebra
development of modern medicine
development of optics
medieval European science
navigation techniques
influencedBy Greek philosophy
Hellenistic science
Indian astronomy
Indian mathematics
Persian scholarship
Syriac Christian scholarship
keyDevelopment advances in spherical trigonometry
codification of Islamic law schools
compilation of comprehensive medical encyclopedias
development of algebra as a distinct discipline
development of paper-making in the Islamic world
expansion of long-distance trade networks
improvements in astronomical observatories
preservation of Hellenistic science and philosophy
refinement of experimental methods in optics
systematic hospitals (bimaristans)
systematic translation of Greek works into Arabic
urbanization and growth of cosmopolitan cities
mainRegion Andalusia
surface form: Al-Andalus

Central Asia
Islamic world
Middle East
North Africa
Persians
surface form: Persia

South Asia
majorDynasty Abbasid Caliphate
Ayyubid dynasty
Buyid dynasty
Fatimid Caliphate
Ghaznavid Empire
surface form: Ghaznavid dynasty

Mamluk Sultanate
Samanid Empire
surface form: Samanid dynasty

Seljuk Sultanate of Rum
surface form: Seljuk Empire

Caliphate of Córdoba
surface form: Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba
notableInstitution Al-Azhar Mosque
surface form: Al-Azhar Mosque-University

Al-Qarawiyyin University
House of Wisdom
surface form: Bayt al-Hikma (Baghdad)

House of Wisdom
libraries of Córdoba
notableScholar Al-Biruni
Al-Farabi
al‑Ghazali
surface form: Al-Ghazali

Al-Idrisi
Al-Jazari
Al-Khwarizmi
Al-Kindi
Al-Masudi
Al-Muqaddasi
Al-Razi (Rhazes)
Al-Sufi
Al-Tabari
Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Hazm
Ibn Jubayr
Ibn Khaldun
Averroes
surface form: Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Avicenna
surface form: Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)
Ibn al-Jawzi
Ibn al-Nafis
Jabir ibn Hayyan
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Omar Khayyam
timeEnd 14th century
timeStart 8th century

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Ibn Khaldun era Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Medieval Islamic period
Ibn al-Nafis region Islamic Golden Age
Al-Mansur era Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Islamic Golden Age (early phase)
Al-Razi (Rhazes) era Islamic Golden Age
subject surface form: Al-Razi
Rayy timePeriod Islamic Golden Age
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) era Islamic Golden Age
subject surface form: Ibn al-Haytham
Seljuk Empire partOf Islamic Golden Age
Caravanserai developedInPeriod Islamic Golden Age
Al-Sufi era Islamic Golden Age
Ibn Hazm era Islamic Golden Age
Al-Muqaddasi era Islamic Golden Age
Al-Idrisi civilization Islamic Golden Age
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi movement Islamic Golden Age
Balkh flourishedDuring Islamic Golden Age
Tus historicalEra Islamic Golden Age
motaqareb metre usedInPeriod Islamic Golden Age
al-ʿAzīz Billāh era Islamic Golden Age
Ibn Miskawayh era Islamic Golden Age
Sana'i culturalSphere Islamic Golden Age
al-Mansuriya era Islamic Golden Age
Jalāl al-Dīn era Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Islamic Golden Age (late phase)
Shams-ud-Dīn era Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Islamic Golden Age (late phase)
Ikhshidid dynasty partOf Islamic Golden Age
Chovot HaLevavot timePeriod Islamic Golden Age
Al‑Raghib al‑Isfahani era Islamic Golden Age
subject surface form: Al-Raghib al-Isfahani
Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi era Islamic Golden Age
al-Hidaya by al-Marghinani historicalPeriod Islamic Golden Age
subject surface form: Al-Hidaya
Algazel era Islamic Golden Age
Ikhwan al-Safa era Islamic Golden Age
Abbasid art relatedMovement Islamic Golden Age
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal movement Islamic Golden Age
al-Harith al-Muhasibi era Islamic Golden Age
Ahmad ibn Hanbal era Islamic Golden Age
Ibn Batta al-Ukbari era Islamic Golden Age
Aryabhata influenced Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Islamic Golden Age astronomers
Al-Maqasid al-Asna period Islamic Golden Age
Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani era Islamic Golden Age
Banu Hilal timePeriod Islamic Golden Age
Al-Juwayni era Islamic Golden Age
Buyid period partOf Islamic Golden Age
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi era Islamic Golden Age
Hisham III partOf Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Islamic Golden Age (late phase)
Muhammad al-Bukhari era Islamic Golden Age
Abbasid Revolution partOf Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Islamic Golden Age (prelude)
Abbasid Revolution followedBy Islamic Golden Age