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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Yaqut al-Musta‘simi culturalSphere Islamic Golden Age
Sijistan historicalPeriod Islamic Golden Age
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Ali ibn Hilal movement Islamic Golden Age
Ali ibn Hilal era Islamic Golden Age
Jayhun appliedDuring Islamic Golden Age
Termez historicalEra Islamic Golden Age
al-Mu'tamid historicalPeriod Islamic Golden Age
Idris II historicalPeriod Islamic Golden Age
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi era Islamic Golden Age
House of Abbas knownFor Islamic Golden Age
Thabit ibn Qurra era Islamic Golden Age
Maghrebi architecture developedInPeriod Islamic Golden Age
Qusta ibn Luqa era Islamic Golden Age
Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur culturalSphere Islamic Golden Age
Dark Ages notAppliedTo Islamic Golden Age
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj era Islamic Golden Age
Ibn Tumart era Islamic Golden Age
al-Wathiq era Islamic Golden Age
Mihna historicalPeriod Islamic Golden Age
al-Muhtadi era Islamic Golden Age
Hārūn ibn Muḥammad era Islamic Golden Age
al-Qasim culture Islamic Golden Age
Abu Dulaf Mosque era Islamic Golden Age
Marajil era Islamic Golden Age
al-Amin historicalPeriod Islamic Golden Age
Dawud al-Zahiri era Islamic Golden Age
ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qanbar culture Islamic Golden Age
Tahirid dynasty historicalEra Islamic Golden Age
al-Hadi era Islamic Golden Age
al-Mahdi era Islamic Golden Age
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini era Islamic Golden Age
UNESCO World Heritage Site (Ancient City of Aleppo) periodOfSignificance Islamic Golden Age
subject surface form: Ancient City of Aleppo
Ibn al-Shatir era Islamic Golden Age
this entity surface form: Islamic Golden Age (late phase)
The Epistle of Forgiveness culturalContext Islamic Golden Age
The Ring of the Dove literaryPeriod Islamic Golden Age
Al-Jahiz era Islamic Golden Age
Al-Majusi era Islamic Golden Age
Al-Tabari (physician) culture Islamic Golden Age
Ibn al-Jazzar movement Islamic Golden Age
Ibn al-Baytar movement Islamic Golden Age
Al-Baghdadi (Ibn al-Tilmidh) era Islamic Golden Age
The Canon of Medicine placeOfOrigin Islamic Golden Age
Al-Hawi timePeriod Islamic Golden Age
Tusi couple historicalContext Islamic Golden Age
Al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars period Islamic Golden Age