Golden Age Of Islam
Golden Age of Islam
Some people call the Middle Ages by the dark ages; however, it should be the golden ages. The golden age of Islam is a period of time that started from 786 to the 15th century [1]. The golden age of Islam begun with the first Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid when he opened the House of Wisdom where it has many scholars translated to many languages and mainly to Arabic [2]. In this period of time, there was a significant amount of improvement and discoveries in many directions such as math, physics, biology, art, health care, architecture, and education. It is important to have the full knowledge about this part of our history to realize how their inventions affect our present time and we still use their discoveries nowadays. People should know there are many inventions have been founded in the Islamic golden ages are still in use …show more content…
Fatima Al Fihri is the founder of the University of Al-Karaouine in 859 and it is located in Morocco [3] and it considered as the oldest university in the world that still giving degrees. The university of Al Karaouine concentrated with natural science and then they added mathematics, physics, foreign languages, and chemistry. Then, Al Azhar University comes to be the second oldest universities in our history and it founded in Egypt in between 970 and 972. Al Azhar University concentrated in teaching literature and Sunni Islam learning that comes from Quran and prophet Mohammed. Finally, the House of Wisdom was the main place of sources and the knowledge where there are translators who translate book from any languages to Arabic. The house of Wisdoms contained a lot of books and many of them translated from other languages to learn what discoveries other cultures made and Al-Khalifa decided to give anyone who translate any book into Arabic by the weight of the book he or she
Some people call the Middle Ages by the dark ages; however, it should be the golden ages. The golden age of Islam is a period of time that started from 786 to the 15th century [1]. The golden age of Islam begun with the first Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid when he opened the House of Wisdom where it has many scholars translated to many languages and mainly to Arabic [2]. In this period of time, there was a significant amount of improvement and discoveries in many directions such as math, physics, biology, art, health care, architecture, and education. It is important to have the full knowledge about this part of our history to realize how their inventions affect our present time and we still use their discoveries nowadays. People should know there are many inventions have been founded in the Islamic golden ages are still in use …show more content…
Fatima Al Fihri is the founder of the University of Al-Karaouine in 859 and it is located in Morocco [3] and it considered as the oldest university in the world that still giving degrees. The university of Al Karaouine concentrated with natural science and then they added mathematics, physics, foreign languages, and chemistry. Then, Al Azhar University comes to be the second oldest universities in our history and it founded in Egypt in between 970 and 972. Al Azhar University concentrated in teaching literature and Sunni Islam learning that comes from Quran and prophet Mohammed. Finally, the House of Wisdom was the main place of sources and the knowledge where there are translators who translate book from any languages to Arabic. The house of Wisdoms contained a lot of books and many of them translated from other languages to learn what discoveries other cultures made and Al-Khalifa decided to give anyone who translate any book into Arabic by the weight of the book he or she