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Фиксиран от Invicta Invicta - Father of surgery is ancient indian doctor Sushruta Samhita (ca. 600 BCE) - he is described as the "father of plastic surgery", and the "father of surgery" Al-Zahrawi is the founder of modern surgical and medical instruments and pioneered neurosurgery and neurological diagnosis. But Sushruta Samhita is first. The rest is right as far as i know. I love your work and i watch your videos regularly. I have one question - can you make video for Carthaginian Army during Barcid family (the reforms which they made - weapons and armor, organisation) Here is what i know - Hamilcar organised army in some form of regiments with manipular system, he armed Carthaginian and Lybophoenician cavalry with falcata sword and Carthaginian, Lybophoenician, libyan infantry with iberian sword similar to gladius, olso he give them so called iberian scutum shield and falarica spear. Iberian troops were armed with carthaginian armor and helmets and organised and trained in regiments. 1. How much this is true 2. If you dont make video - can you tell me for a book or articles with information. Thank you in advance and keep up your work.
@@jivkotodorov84 Al Zahrawi made the biggest contribution to that field though.. Sushruta's work is basic in comparison. In addition, Al Zahrawi's tools are still used today.. even after over a thousand years.
@@user-pv9vs9mx6q - Al Zahrawi had 1500 years medical texts before him one of which is Sushruta Samhita which he probably studied. I dont denied Al Zahrawi work - but Sushruta is first. Yes his work is basic but Sushruta Samhita is written in 600 BC and for his time is revolutionary. Here is article for him www.ancient.eu/sushruta/ www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2017/11/27/sushruta-samhita-the-ancient-treatise-on-surgery Read it and you will understand why he is considered for the father of the surgery - the text he wrote have details for 1120 medical conditions, 700 medical plants, 121 surgical instruments. All this written 1600 years before Al-Tasrif
@@jesseberg3271 perfect response! Unless you think further. I work in a semiconductor manufacturer, and let me tell you that campus weighs a quite a bit, plus all the weight of fuel it is using, materials needed to synth the chemicals etc etc etc. Taking everything into account, the storage of data, that whole system, could be heavier than those mutilated plant corpse 'books'. Just some perspective
Al-Asmaʿi Arabic philologist written his magnificent poem on stone pole, and when they asked him to exchange the paper with the gold, he showed them the stone pole and take it's weight gold 😅
@@dedsecwd This is called Da'wa, islamic propaganda. The islamic golden age happened not because of Islam but in spite of it. Many scientist had to fear for their lives whilst inventing things that went against islamic teachings. Most inventions were made by former christians or pagans who were forced to convert to Islam. There is nothing scientifical in Islam, the Quran teaches that the earth is flat and that the sun sets in a muddy spring...
@@DantesDarkside what are your evidence? no evidence,not true...i am tired of telling the truth when everyone just sucks and just gonna go to hell when they die...da'wa is not a propaganda...propaganda tells about the lies....the only good things...hear one of the sermons...they are not biased...the earth is not flat because they were evidence of it and the sun does sets in the muddy springs...it means it was saw sets in the ocean...
There are some salty people in the comments. Why cant people just accept that Islamic empires actually contributed to our advancement as a a species? When other empires do the same thing we talk about how great they were, point in case the Roman empire, ancient Egyptian civilization, but we have some issue accepting this part of islamic history? Modern day fundamentalism and extremism is a result of several things (dogmatic and literal interpretations of islamic texts, colonialism, etc) but we shouldn't project our opinions about the current state of Islamic communities onto the past.
Because there is and has been a very real movement to disrespect history and lie about Islamic accomplishments in order to make islam more acceptable to westerners. Most of the time achievements accredited to Islam did not actually come from Muslims or Islam. Islam retards the pursuit of knowledge
@Lucius Sulla Name me a pre-Islamic Persian scientist who was on par with the likes of Ibn Sina,Al-Biruni,Al-Farabi,Al-Khawarizmi,Omar Khayyan,Al-Razi and so on. I'll wait. Oh and btw,all of these people were religious and even claimed in their books that religion was what drove them to do what they did.
@Lucius Sulla the story of Omar ordering the destruction of Persian books is a very weak story because the main Persian libraries were in ctesipan which was conquered by treaty while the story talks about a non identified city in Persian land making it a weak story also ctesipan most prestigious learning institute the Jundi Shapur survived till the 3rd hijrah century (9th century AD) 270
Fun fact: There is a chapter (surah in Arabic) of the Qur'an, more precisely the 30th chapter, titled Ar-Rum, meaning "The Romans" in Arabic, which at the time, referred to the Eastern Roman Empire. The first verses of the surah (chapter) refer to the defeat of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Sassanid in the spring of 614 during the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602-628. While in the third and fourth verses, the Muslim community is promised that the Byzantines will reverse their defeat into a victory "in a few years' time". It just very interesting for me when learning about this (I am a history student)
Pajeets: _"Zero and Algebra created by us"_ Atheists and secularists: _"None of the scientists and philosophers were religious or even theists."_ Neo-Zoroastrian Iranian nationalist: _"Actually,it was the Persian Golden Age! They were Persian,not from Arabian religion!"_
The library was really destroyed by Christians because, among other reasons, the head was a girl. They burnt it to the ground. By the time muslims arrived, there were hardly anything left (comparatively) and they burnt all but a few books a renegade stole.
Would not be surprised TH-cam data feedback tells them Thursdays at this time is the optimal moment to release videos. Combine that with it currently being Ramadan, and the coincidence doesn't seem so strange anymore.
I was actually quite surprised as we did not coordinate. However this episode was prompted by a specific Patron request so its possible the same individual requested a similar topic from them. At the same time its a great topic to explore so I'm sure they would have gotten to it at some point anyways.
Honestly I was very happy because they're both two of my favorite history channels ever. And they actually tackled different aspects of the topic which made this even more enriching.
The patron must be twice as happy. Just imagine: "Hm, let's try it on both channels, maybe one day one of them will use my idea. Wait, what's that? They both heard my request and released the video just few hours apart? It must be my birthday today!"
Thanks for the warning. It's a Chinese company after all isn't it?(correct me if I'm wrong, I have a terrible headache right now so I'll not google it)
@@JonatasAdoM it's made by Booming, a Chinese company, and translated and published by Mail.ru, a Russian company. Mail.ru's sister company My.com, handled the publishing of the game in Europe and North America.
Babylon was invaded and faded before Islam.. there was NO Arab role in its destruction and loss of influence. The Babylonian Empire invaded by the Achaemenids at first in around 500BCE, then the Achaemenids were invaded by Alexandar and the Greeks around 330BCE, and Babylon was under Greek control for the next 100 years or so, until the Parthian Empire invaded it again. Even after the Parthians, the Romans invaded around 120AD, and by then, Babylon was not heard of. And then, there was 400 years of Sassanid Rule.. until 640AD, when the Arab Muslims invaded. In reality, the Arabs toke over Mesopotamia over 800 years after its decline. Also, the Arabs actually rebuilt Mesopotamia and gave it influence by making their capital Baghdad situated there.
Crazy how many western ideas and famous people would have been forgotten if not for the Arab golden age. Their openness to knowledge from all sources truly is something that should be replicated to this day
It is sad to see how many of the Middle Eastern people have forgotten their own scholars. When visiting Morocco and UAE, people in the bazaars and local universities, knew very little of the titans mentioned in this video. In contrast, I have little trouble finding people who want to talk about titans of the West like Neitzsche, Galileo and Da Vinci in countries like Germany, Australia and UK, not only in universities but also in common Cafe.
The main reason for such ignorance is colonization, it was hard for those living under colonies to remember the giants of philosophy and science when they were denied education and their homeland was being leeched by foreign powers and to top it all of political authority was fractured, corrupted and the people divided.
That is what happens when your countries get "arabized". The "islamic" golden age happend because the arabs conquered peoples wwith the richest intellectual traditions. You don´t have many famous arab intellectuls because most of them were Persians, mediteranian, syrian etc...
This honestly is one of the best videos I have seen on the Early centuries of Islam. I plan to use this for my AP history class. Thanks so much for all the people who helped put this together.
@@tamazghaunion9158, that's a transliteration; Arabs did not invent numeral _digits,_ especially *zero.* The “Arabic” numbers you typed are the _Romanization of transliterated Indian numbers._ 1, 2, 3,… should really be called Indian numbers (obviously Romanized in the West).
All Empires are inherently unjust, but we got a lot to thank those scholars for. I hope one day we'll live to see Baghdad become the cultural hub of museums and history it's meant to be!
Nice episode, I wish you could mention that the golden age was able to exist because of arabic monopoly on trade with india and china, ended with the mongols taking control of the silk road and placing own rulers in india. Similar trick was later used by the ottomans and for that reason portugal and spain (using italian sailors) started looking for their own path to gold.
4:48 In my opinion it is very important to mention, that these translations of ancient philosophers, doctors an humanists were essentail for the Renaissance in Europe because many originals were either lost, destroyed or locked up in catholic monestries because they were regarded as "heathen literature and thought". only monks that were "firm in their beliefs" were allowed to study ancient works, and that only for historic purposes. the works of the ancient artists, philosophers etc were re - retranslated from arabic into latin and italian and paved the way for the renaissance to happen.
@@dedsecwd Silence. You call them dogs? You dehumanize them? Who is truly peaceful as we have seen the trend to dehumanize your fellow man begets the most destructive acts against him. Silence, YOU DOG, for you are little more intelligent than a dog in its foolish obedience and servility.
@@joeherm lmfao it's just like how they dehumanize us by calling us terrorist that kills innocents and some even call our religion satan religion even though,those killers are apostates and they ARE NOT ISLAM and YOU DOG for behalfing for the racists and someday your children start using abuse words when they can start talking just like how their parents abusing muslims all over the world when muslims is NOT the one created all of the destruction all over the world...you can even saw it in every video of a racist mocking a muslim women with her child...you call that what? and then you get triggered by me saying them dogs when i pointed that word to the racists,and that means you are a racist because you get triggered by a anti-racist comment LMFAO and THEN proceed to call me dog after saying that i'm dehumanizing people by saying the word DOG...
@@dedsecwd There are many in the West who are apostates and have abandoned the good word of God and Christ and so will pay for it, but their rejection of the faith should mean that their actions not reflect it, just as the misuse of Islamic beliefs should not reflect upon those peaceful worshipers in the Middle East.
@@joeherm The problem is they are fucking racist don't you fucking understand by WEST I mean all racist people in the west that hate ISLAM... ask every muslims in the world they are not racist plus,they pray for the good health of every people in the world including christians...
@@GM-xk1nw But we lost our scientific knowledge,our light.BTW we had Ulugh Beg afterwards but he was not entire concept of Islamic Advance,same with the Mehmed the Conqueror.We had remarkable people but Golden Age was lost already
The house of wisdom consisted so many books that when the mongols destroyed the library and threw all the books on the river, the flow of the river stopped and its colour turned black due to the ink of the books.🙁🙁
You might want to correct your spelling there, it's 'Mongols' not 'mongs'. The word 'mong' is a slang term for someone that is an idiot. It's sort of like saying they are retarded. I just thought you should know :)
That’s a LIE! They are talking about the knowledge used to pump oil... the books are the instructions, the river is the source/location of the oil, the flow of the river stopping and turning black from the ink is the pollution and destruction caused by the oil to the natural environment... even though the oil is not directly underneath the river, the river is a source of knowledge and wisdom and wealth(like a river bank or the Egyptian Nile river) rivers are symbolic of mankind, culture, wisdom, community, it’s a singularity that brings man together as one single source for life because of its multi dimensional use and free flowing qualities much like oil is used in modern economy...
Sounds like the slight retelling of a story about Islamic conquest where the heads of kafir's were stacked in a dry river bed until a stream of blood ran from the nonbelievers.
My favorite historical era, hell yeah! Also, man, would have loved to work in the House of Wisdom back in the day. All that scholasticism, all that translation. Forget LAN parties, give me the Nerd Den!
You sure about that? Their annual budget was only 950K Gold Dinars ($150 mil). Those guys had nothing to do but argue, read, write, and only grow and prosper as they did more.. it is risky when you reward research for research sake like the Caliphs did. They had little red tape and even the worst hand writers could make a living..
@@cv4809 The internet houses as much info as it does misinformation, lies and selective obfiscation. The important thing is a trained mind no matter if a thousand years ago or today.
Back then, the Islamic state was filled with rationality and academic research but now, it is full of civil war, bombing and blind fanaticism This is tragic
@@CBRN-115 please read now about present day☪️ I will say this Colonialism has not ended..... it evolved. let me explain. before colonialism " ends " the west chose the leaders of countries to keep their interest in regions take france for example. www.ieri.be/en/publications/wp/2019/f-vrier/france-still-exploiting-africa and take me for example. i am from the middle east and here our " dictators" have been chosen by the west not by us and here they uneducate people Historically , economically and religiously because that's what sustain their rule and my country is rich ,but money is nothing for me and for us muslims in general and here we eat we drink and we sleep ( not me i always study and seek knowledge in all fronts as best as i can and am a civil engineer ) even the cattle eat drinks and sleeps. here🇰🇼 courrption is too obvious and we muslims are in phase one and that's " Realization " to be fully aware from politics to history to religion. and every time a Muslim nation rises the west is unsatisfied and want to overthrow the government. Gaddafi,mursi,Yemeni leader Salah , King faisal in the 70s ( he got assassinated) ....etc way a lot i can't go over them all. HOWEVER, before the Arab spring this i admit was not clear to all of us ,but after the Arab spring EVERYTHING WAS CLEAR. we now came to realize misery is built by the happiness of others and our leaders and boarders were chosen and drawn by the west and we must amd will over throw our governments and stop the western intervention in our lands. sorry forgot ( the western people have nothing to do with their governments in fact we are all slaves to this corrupted system we live under " capitalism " or communism both you use " banks" made you know by who i don't have to explain). now about "slavery has evolved" and this time it favors no race only one in fact 👃 and it favors mostly the dollar. we are born to serve and sustain the system and the system milks the life out of us and we gain " invaluable paper money " in return and sometimes we get in debt which is literally an invisible chain in the neck. basically we are living inside bank and the bank choses who succeed and who doesn't and the bank plays with economy and who built it? "the red shield" known as the rothschilds. our muslim lands are the battlefield of the super powers and when you say next time why refugees are in Europe ask yourself what caused them to be there? that's the correct question. Russia is causing the refugee crisis in Europe by bombing the Syrians and helping Assad to kill his people and the refugees are a toy to send them to Turkey and Europe to weaken their economy and make the left wing fight right wing start wars. Russia has an agenda and don't get wrong Russia, china and America/western Europe are fighting for their agenda to who rules who. all of them are trash. now i want to put it in conclusion. " REALIZATION LEADS TO REVALUATION AND REVELATION LEADS TO REVOLUTION " SOMETIMES IT LEADS TO A VERY DIFFERENT R AND THAT'S RADICALIZATION AND THAT HAPPENS WITHOUT BACKBONE. that's why people go far left or far right. because they are weak in character and btw left wing right wing is a toy for the system no matter who wins the system decides everything not the people nor the government. We muslims are in phase one ,but obviously Turkish people has finished phase three. and we look forward to unite with our Muslim brothers and sisters and no islam is not an Arab please don't let me write about it and Arab is not an ethnicity it's a language. the world is Suffering from western imperialism ( not the people unlike you we understand) most people walk with where the wind pushes them am not like that i hope you understand now.
@Jimmy Neutron being bad at fighting? it's not about fighting you obviously don't understand at all the history and the politics. my ancestors literally took your ancestors head and wiped the floor of Al Sham ( Levant) with it. what i mentioned previously is true my previous comment, but obviously you lack reasoning and want to take things personally with me. Foolishness
Well guys,that is how world is working,in one time we are the mighty one but in another time we can be the weak one,so we can be humble when we are mighty and we can be patience when we are weak
Dang... i didn't know it was a competition, but you just won it. I really liked Kings and Generals take on this topic, but I love this one. Al-Muquadimmah's pronunciation and passion really upped the quality here. This is awesome. Just be careful, because now I'm sure they'll try to outdo you on the next one lol.
oh how the mighty had fall, look like the Islamic world now is experiencing what Europe had gone through in 8 - 9 cent, they own "dark age". let hope the Islamic world will soon get out of this woeful state and join the rest of the world
@@Lilliathi you claim, but what if u take a look at what your western geniuses said about him and see which kind of influence? Do not listen to me nor to any muslim just seek the truth yourself, and i can suggest u some books to read thats if u ask me. Be safe
@@Lilliathi its not my books, its their. And im really amazed by your daring to say they were wrong even before u read to em! Hats off to you! You succeeded.
The House of Wisdom was certainly impressive. As is this video. I did enjoy it a lot. I wonder what could've been achieved had this golden age of science continued for a few hundred more years.
@@عثمان-و9س a very rare and unique point of view that i fail to notice in our muslim society as we drift further and farther from this golden age. I respect this well thought point of view.
I think every Tunisian has a copy of it in his home , it must be one of the first non fiction books I have ever read . IT maybe important to point out that there are inaccuracies and wrongful conclusions in it ( for example the origins of the Amazigh) but as a whole it's a great read , I never did read it in any other languages except Arabic so there maybe a different feeling to it . All in all that book and Ibn Khaldun are considered as source of pride in Tunisia.
@@MartialBorschel It was a separate kingdom that did it. The khwarzmian kingdom that was ruled by Turkmen and most of the Mongol federation were the same Turkmen
@@morningmidnight9398 Right but doesn't it seem odd to make it that nuanced when the overall video takes an islamic view as opposed to solely kingdom by kingdom. Same logic holds here then- you have a kingdom incurring the wrath of a greater power and it affecting the broader islamic culture.
@@tasinal-hassan8268 per who's metric? If it extends past several empires collapses and rises, it isn't a golden age. I'd accept 8th-13th centuries, but past that is just ethnonationalism making them lose their sense of reason.
Just don't forget that in all that "openness" and "progress" they still had institutionalized slavery and they still did military conquests. Today that's often brushed under the rug and they are viewed as some kind of a perfect utopia by Westerners laden with guilt and self-doubt.
@@praevasc4299 1. "had" is not the correct word... Slavery still exists, we just call it with more pleasant word. 2. I didn't ignore the fact of military conquests, but I was talking holding in mind later phase, when they became more civilized. 3. By no means I believe in possibility of existence without wars, nor into utopias. 4. Thx Cthulhu Im not Westerner laden with guilt and self-doubt. And PS My comment must be concerned as a warning to anybody thinking about the idea of purple-happy, free society...
@@praevasc4299 most ancient socities had slavery to some extent. Even those in ancient greece, even in the Arab caliphates, in china, etc. The arabics were pretty damn advanced for their time, especially with the tolerance of other cultures in their empire, as a lot of places still had religious violence against those they disagree with. Slavery was a more publically accepted institution back then, and a society from back then having slaves doesnt necessarily take away from their advancements (that being said, im not sayin slavery isnt bad. It definitely is)
@@Number1Irishlad I wasn't saying other civilizations didn't have slavery. I'm just saying that those who attack Western civilization and romanticize the Islamic one, are hypocrites, because they all tell about slavery in the West while they don't mention slavery elsewhere.
15:15 its disingenuous that you try to represent him as being the first man to do this and try to credit to the islamic golden age. Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time. He is best known for making the first recorded measurement of the Earth's circumference, which was also remarkably accurate. Because of this i get the feeling that that isn't the only disingenuous insinuation in this video.
True , even Indians did contribute a lot to the scientific discource. Under sassanian rule , In Khuzestan there was university which is a melting pot for Ideas from East and West. During the Islamic Golden age, Byzantine Empire did exist and a lot of texts contributing to renaissance came after its fall in 1453 to the west , not from Baghdad
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Actually he never once states that Al Biruni was the first to calculate it . He simply states that he calculated it. Im not sure what you were listening to but it clearly wasnt the video so try and listen before making such a claim.
But he never said that... he said that Al-Biruni calculated the circumference of the Earth very closely... not that he was the first to do it. I think you're overreacting quite a bit, this video is nowhere near to being exceptionalistic imo.
Not saying I disagree but when you think about it neither were they the first. You just have to look at the pyramids for example. It's complexity would indicate that higher dagree of knowledge was discovered waaaay back in history than we'd like to admit. Who's to say there wasn't many "sacking of Baghdad" in previous history, 5-10-20 thousand years ago? So for you to make these claims would be disingenuous too
An amazing insight into a world that already lost long ago. Wonder what happened if the Abbasid never got decentralised and eventually conquered by the Mongols and the states continue to flourish.
One of the great what ifs of history. Honestly the crusades didnt help either. Christian's from Europe considered most of the Arabic works to be heretical and oftend destroyed much of what they found in huge book burnings. . . . .a tragic loss for all man kind, agian organized religion proves itself the enemy of progress
Due credit, such scientific achievements. Very insightful and educational. If it wasn't for Arabic scientific achievements European would still be in the dark ages. Thank you for the knowledge.
Most of them were stolen from European societies after they killed all the men, raped and slaughtered the women, and defiled all the female children before selling them into slavery.
Judging by the comments, many viewers would expect that video to blame Islam for Daesh. There'd be a lot of butthurt when Colonialism and current Western foreign policy is brought up. The existence of Daesh is Cause and Effect. Without certain events, like the Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, or the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, Daesh wouldn't exist.
@Lachlan Allen There isn't an ounce of self-hatred in me. Pointing out the truth isn't self hatred. Western foreign policy has a role in a plethora of issues ranging from terrorism to mass immigration. Regarding Wahhabism, Britain did actually support the Wahhabis revolt against the Ottomans. Also, imagine blaming Islam for Takfiri groups when Takfirism is condemned in the Qur'an as a major sin and Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, the Fourth Caliph, was assassinated by Takfiris. Sure, it technically wouldn't exist without Islam also existing, but to make it out to be Islam's fault is disingenuous.
The convert or die sentiment comes, because Islamic conquest did forcefully convert infidels. Jews and Christians weren't considered infidels. Instead people of the book (Bible). But Zoroastrianism was quelled in the sassanid empire. The religion was never able to recover. Today there are only 100 thousand Zoroastrians in the entire world
The curious exception is Hinduism in India. The Islamic rulers and the Ulema somehow reached a compromise to treat Hindus as an "honorary people-of-the-book" even though they were clearly polytheistic. I wonder why this didn't happen to zoroastrian Iran.
@@firmanimad my feelings on the matter, which by the way I have no idea are true. Is that the abbyad empire, needed the economic trade with India to reach china. So therefore it was better to trade peacefully with the Hindus than to go to war with them. In essence, money trumps all, even religion
@@ahrlj24 I said that Christians and Jews weren't killed. You didn't even read what I wrote. I said the non believer's we're killed. Which is undeniable, I'm not even condemning the Muslim conquest. Conqeurers subjugating people is just part of history. Christians subjugated pagan Vikings in the north and Jews. Mongols sacked Baghdad and ended the islamic golden age. The European countries invaded and subjugated the new world. It's just part of history
@@ahrlj24 lebanese christians are mainly decendants of crusader europeans ane the christian population of egypt is 5.7. They gradually converted over the centuries
TYVM for this presentation... I knew some but not all of the information.. the saddest piece was not only the last minute of the presentation but the fact that the lessons learned from the loss of the golden age have yet to be learned by current Islamic leadership ... how much will civilization gain if toleration of others would once again build a new house of wisdom...
If only Islamic countries remained like this even to the modern day Instead of blind fanaticism and frequent bombing, there would be rationality and conversations about literature and science. It's such a sad thing really
Tasin Al-Hassan maybe so but he still influenced many to abandon math/science. “manipulation of numbers is the work of the Devil” his words and also Neil deGrasse Tyson mentioned it as well.
_"The second evil likely to follow from the study of the mathematical sciences derives from the case of an ignorant friend of Islam who supposes that our religion must be championed by the rejection of every science ascribed to the philosophers. So he rejects all their sciences,claiming that they display ignorance and folly in them all. He even denies their statements about eclipses of the sun and the moon and asserts that their views are contrary to the revealed Law. When such an assertion reaches the ears of someone who knows those things through apodeictic demonstration,he does not doubt the validity of his proof,but rather believes that Islam is built on ignorance and the denial of apodeictic demonstration. So he becomes all the more enamored of philosophy and envenomed against Islam. _*_Great indeed is the crime against religion committed by anyone who supposes that Islam is to be championed by the denial of these mathematical sciences."_* - Al-Ghazālī, Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalāl), trans. Richard J. Mccarthy, S.J. (Boston: Twayne, 1980), 8-9. So no,Al-Ghazālī not once implied that mathematics was the work of the "Devil" or whatever that means. These are orientalist myths,much like idea that harems were orgy houses for Muslim Kings. Al-Ghazali's concern for studying mathematics rested not in its inherent opposition to religion or science,but in the philosopher’s monopolization of it solely for the sake of their unsubstantiated metaphysical views. So he was not against the study of mathematics per se; rather, he attempted to facilitate it by pointing out its licentious misuse by his intellectual opponents. The irony here is that he was warning us about exactly what Neil Tyson pulled off in that seminar a decade ago. (2009 in Switzerland?) The fact that Neil,a mediocre science writer,attempted to talk about a subject matter he was not an expert in (History), is a textbook example of what Al-Ghazali was so worried about. He then went on to say that Muslims having only 12 Nobel Prizes despite outnumbering Jews,who have more than 10 times those prizes,is an indication of what Al-Ghazali inflicted upon the Islamic Golden Age. He missed out on two important things here: 1. Jews are a race. Those Nobel Prize winners vary in terms of personal faith. Einstein was an agnostic deist,for example. A better comparison would've been with Christians. 2. Majority of the Nobel Prize winners are predominantly from the white race. In fact,black people virtually have no Nobel Prizes. Not even compared to the few ones Arabs,Persians,Indians and Bangladeshis received. So does that mean Neil,a black person,is unintelligent and incapable of scientific thought? Is he useless? Does he speak in ooga boogas?
Great video about a subject not often talked about. I'd just like to point out that the Carolingian empire was also going through the carolingian reneissance. It was not comparable at all to the Islamic golden age, however it shows that Europe of the late antiquty wasn't completely abandoning education.
Al-Kindi was born in Kufa (modern Iraq) a Muslim Arab polymath. He was a philosopher, scientist, astrologer, astronomer, chemist, mathematician, musician, physician and physicist who was well known for his utmost interest in Greek philosophy. He was the first prominent philosopher of the Islamic world and was a member of the former Christian Arab tribe of Al-Kinda and was the only pure blooded Arab philosopher. The Italian Renaissance scholar Geralomo Cardano (1501-1575) considered him one of the twelve greatest minds of the Middle Ages. Al-Kindi became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and lead him to write a number of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects ranging from metaphysics and ethics to mathematics and philosophy and pharmacology. In the field of mathematics, al-Kindi played an important role in introducing Indian numerals to the Islamic and Christian world. His own thought was largely influenced by the Neo-Platonic philosophy of Proclus, Plotinus and John Philoponus, amongst others, although he does appear to have borrowed ideas from other Hellenistic schools as well. Earlier experts had suggested that he was influenced by the Mutazilite school of theology, because of the mutual concern both he and they demonstrated for maintaining the pure unity (tawhid) of God. However, such agreements are now considered incidental, as further study has shown that they disagreed on a number of equally important topics. Al-Kindi is regarded as the "father of Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world. During his life, al-Kindi was fortunate enough to enjoy the patronage of the pro-Mutazilite Caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim, which meant he could carry out his philosophical speculations with relative ease. This would change significantly towards the end of his life when al-Mutawakkil supported the more orthodox Asharite school, and initiated persecution of various unorthodox schools of thought, including the philosophers. He also engaged in disputations with the Mutazilites, whom he attacked for their belief in atoms. But the real role of al-Kindi in the conflict between philosophers and theologians would be to prepare the ground for debate. His works, says Deborah Black, contained all the seeds of future controversy that would be fully realized in al-Ghazali's "Incoherence of the Philosophers". Al-Farabi (known in the west as Alpharabius), the Kazakh thinker, was the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world. Among the scholars of the Middle Period - (tenth and eleventh centuries ad) al-Farabi was considered the foremost Aristotelian, and was indeed known as the "Second Teacher" (Aristotle himself being the First Teacher). He made notable contributions to the fields of mathematics, philosophy, medicine, sociology and music. He was inspired by the Platonism and Neo-Platonism and was a great exponent of the Aristotelian school of philosophy. He wrote rich commentaries on Aristotle and like al-Razi, he considered reason superior to revelation and advocated for the relegation of prophecy to philosophy. According to him as quoted by Nicholson, “…reason should govern and control the life of man. He definitely did not believe in the inherent doctrines of the Islamic creed and wished it could be reformed guided by philosophy. He was also a major political scientist and may rightly be acclaimed as one of the greatest of Islamic philosophers of all time. While his name tends to be overshadowed by that of Ibn Sina, it is worth bearing in mind that the latter was less original than the former.
Europe's centers of learning were not being 'abandoned or pillaged', Charlemagne and the Byzantine Empire (fresh off fighting Muslim pillagers) both established and upheld schooling.
The literacy rate in francia was around 1%. Even charlamange is thought to be iliterate. He did push for inovation and litteracy but its nothing to compare with the caliphate
@@user-gm5bt6rb1n Heres the source, please read it completely. aeon.co/essays/medieval-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic There was also a better TH-cam video that described the event in detail but I cant find it now..
Very interesting video, I didn't know much about the islamic empire. The house of wisdom, shame it was destroyed, same with the library of alexandria. I wonder where we would be should those ancient hubs of science never been destroyed
@Aléxandros ho Mégas some would argue that the link was more direct than that. The Ash'ari school that was more similar to modern fundamental Islam gained prominence after the razing of Baghdad, and they believed that he Mongols were god's punishment for their liberal, open, scientific ways.
@@firmanimad If the sack of Baghdad was the coffin, the Ash'ari school is certainly the nails and Wahabii is being the deep dark hole where it is thrown into.
@@EloHellResident the Communists tried that theory out. In practice, people can still be dangerous violent extremists without religion. Sadly, there is no simple solution to human stupidity.
In a dystopia of powerful 'professors' shutting down anyone who questions the status quo. Example:. After Newton, physics was assumed to be solved. New research got shut down violently for hundreds of years, careers of brilliant people ruined. Such things were even worse back then.
What I wanna know is why the Mongols destroyed the books. They were savage for sure, but also savvy enough to know that books were loot. It's as confusing as it is saddening.
Golden ages aren’t caused by religion really, religion is good for it though golden ages are caused by motivation and careful planning, motivation makes people work if they work they produce if they produce they strengthen the stability of the economy if the economy is stable they have time to learn that learning can be used to improve the ability to produce so that more have time to enjoy life. When I say produce I mean both raw and refined/manufactured goods. The truth is people have to work regardless to have a stable society even the hyper rich, billionaires have responsibilities too, if they don’t manage work becomes inefficient if it gets inefficient it stops making profit, no profit no money, no money, no power, to put it plainly all it takes for a golden age is good production and good management of what’s produced
Tom Franco no religion holds some weight even now, belief in a higher power gives hope and a feeling of importance people who are depressed don’t tend to make much, although I agree a lot of religion especially Islam is taken too seriously they take things sometimes too literally on things that are metaphorical or spiritual in nature like Catholics believed in the Middle Ages they were literally consuming the body and blood of Christ at mass on Sunday, when it was clearly more of ceremonial thing meant to represent that relationship. Worse is when people follow a faith which doctrine actively encourages violence or references encouragement vaguely. Religion also doesn’t contradict science religion is a subject on the metaphysical sciences is the study of the working of the Universe as far as we know the Universe is separate from metaphysical concepts essentially anything that doesn’t deal with our reality is metaphysical God could be real but he’s not on our plane of existence anymore so Science neither confirms nor denies the existence of an omnipotent being essentially science is agnostic meaning it doesn’t know which is different from Atheism who go I cannot see it and there isn’t evidence past a book and some accuracy questionable documents outside it, therefore it cannot exist, which is frankly wrong the Scientific method essentially says if we find something it exists if we don’t then we don’t know if it exists or if it doesn’t for all science knows dragons might’ve been real they were depicted in every culture, but yes religion is sometimes helpful but most it doesn’t do much.
Jon it can be, a golden age means good economic growth and national/cultural unity or patriotism, it’s defined as a time of peace and prosperity, but the American golden age around the 1950s when economic stability and consumerism were on the rise and we weren’t too into the Cold War was because of a general increase in productivity and happiness and a more community invested attitude not due to their faith, Islam is religious even now, that doesn’t mean that they’re in a golden age, religion doesn’t cause a golden age it helps make one easier because it unifies people in hope and community values.
@@_gold_eye_2656 Well yeah,that's why we called it a Golden Age. Also even when the Islamic Golden Age was about to come to an end,Muslim men like Mohammed Ali Pasha tried to industrialize the Middle East. Unfortunately,the British government had him deposed.
The rule after the conquests was convert or pay extra taxes as nonmuslims or if you cant do neither flee or die. This was the rule for the caliphates, then the Ottoman empire and it was bloody, no less than the crusades that began centuries later.
@@islamisthetruth3402 then i suppose all the islamic scholars and historians of the past and the present day who mention the Jizya are liars too. Also the various islamic and religious authors and imams who speak of various occurances of violence against nonbelievers (aka christians, jews etc.), about the treatment of their women, who became slaves and propperty of their new masters... Denying history of religious strife no matter on which side you are on or your ancestors have been is a disgrace to the memories to those who lived in those times. Islam had an amazing golden age, islamic scholars kept and preserved many ancient texts, books and works of greek and other authors. Those works were lost in Europe and the west and were brought back as booty from the Crusades. But then with the mongol onslaught, the sacking of Baghdad (the intellectual capital of the world at that time) and the declaration of various religious leaders that further research, changes of the doctrine and rules is contradictory to The Quran and the established order hence it must be stopped led to an untimely end of the Golden age. Many stars, pulsars and celestial bodies have arab names, beautiful devices as the astrolabe are of arabic-muslim origin but then you have men like Imam Hamid al-Ghazali who states in his works that mathematics is a work of the devil and it must be banned, books burned and never revisited. Islam gave many good things to the world but as every other religion or influence it had its bad sides and effects. There has never been violent conquest without bloodshed. Being proud of achievements is good, but denying truths you find unappealing leads only to a new downfall. So dear Asmoh you can lie to yourself, to others or whoever you want but the truth is unchangeable as it concerns event that has already happened and even if one day none remembers it.
Islam never treated woman badly, idiot and did you know Spain forced Muslims and Jews living there to die, convert or leave. That’s worse than paying a tax isn’t it?
in fact Mongol invasion wasn't THE reason for ending of Islamic golden age because so many many great men like Hafez, Sadi, Aladdin Atamalek Joveyni, Khaje rashidoddin and so on rised, destroyer of Islamic golden age was Teymur lang/Tamerlane a radical Islamic which still is famous for his destruction. and badoway officially Rashidun Khelaffat/caliphate had 5 caliph. the last one was Hasan and his rule was so short. you really tried to sat right pronunciation and that was wonderful but I wonder why you still call it Mecca instead of Makke?
People of an IQ above 50, please Ignore the trolls in the comment section. They are looking for attention and everytime you comment against them you are validating them. Have a nice day!
It's very close minded to label them as morons and trolls. History should be discussed with both sides. However, there are many people in these comments who aren't actually contributing to the conversation but instead simply lashing out, either for or against the video. To those people, I completely agree to pay them no mind.
@@luxither7354 I agree with your entire comment. However, when a 16 minute video has 20 dislikes in 10 minutes of it's release, You can already anticipate that there will be little to no fruitful discussion occuring. From people shouting profanities to people screaming conspiracies, A huge chunk of the comments seem pretty moronic to me. Please do inform me of any good discussions if you do see them however.
Ibn Rushd (1126-1198): This great mind born in Andalusia, present-day Spain was an important philosopher and scientist, known in the Western world as Averroes. His influence on European thought tends to be forgotten by Arabs and Europeans alike. But in the 13th and 14th century Averroism was as influential as was Marxism in the 19th century. Ibn Rushd worked as a mediator between the Arabic and the Western world by commenting and interpreting Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato, making them accessible to Arabic culture. He considered Aristotle as ‘the Prefect Man’. He wrote extensive commentaries on Aristotle and earned the epithet of "The Commentator". “He expounded the Quran in Aristotelian terms. In many of his works, he also tried to mediate between philosophy and religion. Religious leaders did not always praise his works; he was condemned for heresy by the Christian, the Jewish and the Islamic orthodoxy and his works were frequently banished and burnt. Ibn Rushd fell out of favor with the Caliph due to the opposition that theologians had raised against his writings. He was accused of heresy, interrogated and banned to Lucena, close to Cordova. At the same time, the Caliph ordered the books of the philosopher to be burnt, with the exception of his works on Medicine, Arithmetic and Elementary Astronomy (around 1195). Somewhat later the Caliph revoked the banishment and called Ibn Rushd back to Marrakesh. The works of Ibn Rushd also aroused admiration in Europe, even among those theologians who saw a danger for religious faith in his writings. In the 13th century, Ibn Rushd was condemned by bishops from Paris, Oxford and Canterbury for reasons similar to those that had caused his condemnation by the orthodox Muslims in Spain. Abu Yaqub, the Caliph of Morocco, called him to his capital and appointed him as his physician in place of Ibn Tufail. His son Yaqub al-Mansur retained him for some time but soon Ibn Rushd's views on theology and philosophy drew the Caliph's wrath. All his books, barring strictly scientific ones, were burnt and he was banished to Lucena. However, as a result of intervention of several leading scholars he was forgiven after about four years and recalled to Morocco in 1198; but he died towards the end of the same year. Ibn Rushd was a liberal, an exponent of liberation of women and regarded “much of the poverty and distress of the times arises from the fact that women are kept like “domestic animals” or house plants for purposes of gratification”, of a very questionable character besides, instead of being allowed to take part in the production of material and intellectual wealth, and in the preservation of the same. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780-850): Al-Khwarizmi was born in Khwarizm (now Khiva) in Uzbekistan. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the house of wisdom (established by Caliph al-Mamun) in Baghdad. He was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. Some of his contributions were based on earlier Persian and Babylonian Astronomy, Indian numerals, and the Greek sources. His "Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing" was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Consequently he was considered "father of algebra", a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic, on the Indian numerals, introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world in the 12th century. He revised and updated Ptolemy’s Geography as well as writing several works on astronomy and astrology. His contributions not only made a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. Most of the positional base 10 numeral systems in the world have originated from India which first developed the concept of positional numerology. The Indian numeral system is commonly referred to the West as Hindu-Arabic numeral system, since it reached Europe through the Arabs. History of Algebra: The Chinese, the Persians, and the people of India used algebra thousands of years ago. The Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks contributed to the early development of algebra. Al-Khwarizmi a teacher in the mathematical school in Baghdad, collected and improved the advances in algebra of previous Hindu and Arab scholars. His works included the translation of Greek and Sanskrit scientific manuscript. Some words reflect the importance of al-Khwarizmi's contributions to mathematics. "Algebra" is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations he used to solve quadratic equations. Algorism and algorithm stem from Algoritmi, the Latin form of his name. His name is also the origin of (Spanish) guarismo and of (Portuguese) algarismo, both meaning digit. According to the historian al-Tabari, al-khwarizmi was an adherent of the old Zoroastrian religion. Others considered him as orthodox Muslim. Nevertheless, Al-Khwarizmi never indicated that he was influenced by religiosity or he received any scientific theory out of Koran or hadiths.
During a quick search I could find literally nothing about the archaeology of modern Baghdad. Is all of the information in Arabic or is there actually nothing left?
@@jamesporter628 there isnt much surviving in baghdad, as unfortunate as it is, due to the mongols. Like they fuckin went at it, and got down to the Persian gulf. A lot of the arcitecture from spain and morocco when they were under arabic rule are some of the best preservations of what buildings in baghdad might have looked like back then
15:17 the caption under Thabit Ibn Qurra reads "Father of Statics". The narrator says "Statistics". Statics is an area of study in the field of physics, whereas statistics is a branch of mathematics. Which is correct?
I stand corrected. I was familiar with Thabit ibn Qurra from the idea of a Thabit number which is related to amicable numbers and so I assumed mathematics was what was meant. Turns out he actually was a founder of Statics as well. Having to do with weights and physics...the more you know.
@@Fisherfan48 Yes, it is statics. I posed it as a question in order to politely draw attention to the narrator's error. Glad my (indirect) contribution helped someone learn something new! :)
Geber, aka Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān, was a prominent Islamic alchemist, pharmacist, philosopher, astronomer, and physicist. He has also been referred to as the "father of Arab chemistry" by Europeans. The historian of chemistry Erick John Holmyard gives credit to Jābir for developing alchemy into an experimental science and he writes that Jābir's importance to the history of chemistry is equal to that of Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier. His ethnic background is not clear; although most sources state he was an Arab, some describe him as Persian. Jabir was born in Tus, Khorasan, in Iran, which was at the time ruled by the Umayyad Caliphate. He was the son of Hayyan al-Azdi, a pharmacist of the Arabian Azd tribe who emigrated from Yemen to Kufa (in present-day Iraq) during the Umayyad Caliphate. Jabir is mostly known for his contributions to chemistry. He emphasised systematic experimentation, and did much to free alchemy from superstition and turn it into a science. He is credited with the invention of many types of now-basic chemical laboratory equipment, and with the discovery and description of many now-commonplace chemical substances and processes - such as the hydrochloric and nitric acids, distillation, and crystallization that have become the foundation of today's chemistry and chemical engineering. Jabir's alchemical investigations were theoretically grounded in an elaborate numerology related to Pythagorean and Neoplatonic systems. In his writings, Jabir pays tribute to Egyptian and Greek alchemists Hermes Trismegistus, Agathodaimon, Pythagoras, and Socrates. His books strongly influenced the medieval European alchemists and justified their search for the philosopher's stone. In spite of his leanings toward mysticism (he was considered a Sufi) and superstition, he more clearly recognised and proclaimed the importance of experimentation. Jabir became an alchemist at the court of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, for whom he wrote the Kitab al-Zuhra ("The Book of Venus", on "the noble art of alchemy"). In the middle Ages, Jabir's treatises on chemistry were translated into Latin and became standard texts for European alchemists. Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (known in the west as Abulcasis) was an Andalusian Muslim Physician born in 936 A.D. in Zahra in the neighborhood of Cordova, Al-Andalus, present-day Spain. He became one of the most renowned surgeons of the Muslim era and was a court physician to the Andalusian caliph Al-Hakam II. After a long medical career, rich with significant original contribution, he died in 1013 A.D. He is best known for his early and original breakthroughs in surgery as well as for his famous Medical Encyclopedia called Al-Tasrif, which is composed of thirty volumes covering different aspects of medical science. He is considered the "father of modern surgery" and as the greatest medieval surgeon to have appeared from the Islamic World whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Arab medicine and Greco-Roman teachings, shaped both Islamic and European surgical procedures up until the Renaissance. His greatest contribution to history is the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices. According to Dr. Cambell (History of Arab Medicine), his principles of medical science surpassed those of Galen in the European medical curriculum.
The comparison with "Europe" during this period is an illusionary one. There was no such thing as Europe at that but rather the slow emergence of "Christendom" which came about as an alarmed reaction to the growth and vitality of the Islamic world.
Most muslims would have you executed on a pike if they had the power to do so. Pakistani muslims demanded the death penalty for a Pakistan Christian for an ALLEGATION of blasphemy and actually protested when she was not hanged to death for it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Bibi_blasphemy_case
It’s ironic that the Golden Age of Islam gets eclipsed by the Renaissance in Western school systems when the Renaissance arguably couldn’t have happened without the translations done in the Golden Age
People tend to put their own culture on a pedistal. Perfect examples are America and many middle Eastern cultures; only focusing on their positive contributions without mentioning any warcrimes or horrible things they may have done.
This was Islamic Golden Age part 1 but after this Muslim societies continued to flourish in Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empire. The Indian economy was large and prosperous under the Mughal Empire. During the Mughal era, the gross domestic product (GDP) of India in 1600 was estimated at about 22% of the world economy, the second largest in the world, behind only Ming China but larger than Europe. By 1700, the GDP of Mughal India had risen to 24% of the world economy, the largest in the world, larger than both Qing China and Western Europe. Mughal India was the world leader in manufacturing, producing about 25% of the world's industrial output up until the 18th century. Ottoman Empire had the most powerful military in the world for 4 centuries and it contained the most advanced weapons and cannons of their time. They were one of the first armies to mainly be equipped with musketeers and gunpowder weapons which was the reason for their large conquests. Safavid Empire was also one of the Gunpowder Empire. Although their greatest contribution for me is the architectural wonder in cities like Isfahan.
@Rafael Gonzalez It has become a norm for many countries, only to teach the cultural predecessors of their nation. While the Roman empire takes a lot of attention in western teachings, here in Turkey we do learn barely anything of it, the education is mostly centered on Turkic khanates and sultanates.
One could argue that the need for a renaissance was thanks to the rise of Islam so it's pretty rich that you now go "lol the stupid west wouldn't even be smart if it wasn't for the Islamic golden Age". That's victim blaming.
Because its basic public education, get a brain. Theres a reason colleges have more specialized classes for specialized learning and that people can spend 4+ years Majoring or mastering specific cultural histories. Its more of a shame American education isnt even going into detail truly learning American history and walking out memorizing our own Constitution and relative adept arguments and reasoning behind it by age 18.
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is ancient indian doctor Sushruta Samhita (ca. 600 BCE) - he is described as the "father of plastic surgery", and the "father of surgery"
Al-Zahrawi
is the founder of modern surgical and medical instruments and pioneered neurosurgery and neurological diagnosis. But Sushruta Samhita is first. The rest is right as far as i know.
I love your work and i watch your videos regularly.
I have one question - can you make video for Carthaginian Army during Barcid family (the reforms which they made - weapons and armor, organisation)
Here is what i know - Hamilcar organised army in some form of regiments with manipular system, he armed Carthaginian and Lybophoenician cavalry with falcata sword and Carthaginian, Lybophoenician, libyan infantry with iberian sword similar to gladius, olso he give them so called iberian scutum shield and falarica spear.
Iberian troops were armed with carthaginian armor and helmets and organised and trained in regiments.
1. How much this is true
2. If you dont make video - can you tell me for a book or articles with information.
Thank you in advance and keep up your work.
@@jivkotodorov84 Al Zahrawi made the biggest contribution to that field though.. Sushruta's work is basic in comparison. In addition, Al Zahrawi's tools are still used today.. even after over a thousand years.
Yo, you already have a real problem with white fascists raiding this comment section...
They "sponsored" you generously I guess.
@@user-pv9vs9mx6q - Al Zahrawi had 1500 years medical texts before him one of which is Sushruta Samhita
which he probably studied.
I dont denied Al Zahrawi work - but Sushruta is first.
Yes his work is basic but Sushruta Samhita is written in 600 BC and for his time is revolutionary.
Here is article for him
www.ancient.eu/sushruta/
www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2017/11/27/sushruta-samhita-the-ancient-treatise-on-surgery
Read it and you will understand why he is considered for the father of the surgery -
the text he wrote have details for 1120 medical conditions, 700 medical plants, 121 surgical instruments. All this written 1600 years before Al-Tasrif
As a book translator, I'm thinking now about using the book's weight in gold as means of payment.
Careful, some wiseguy will try to argue that an ebook has no physical weight, and therefore you should have to work for free.
@@jesseberg3271 perfect response! Unless you think further. I work in a semiconductor manufacturer, and let me tell you that campus weighs a quite a bit, plus all the weight of fuel it is using, materials needed to synth the chemicals etc etc etc.
Taking everything into account, the storage of data, that whole system, could be heavier than those mutilated plant corpse 'books'.
Just some perspective
Al-Asmaʿi Arabic philologist written his magnificent poem on stone pole, and when they asked him to exchange the paper with the gold, he showed them the stone pole and take it's weight gold 😅
@@jesseberg3271 just ask for the its data space in gold
1 GB = 1 kilogram of gold
1 MB = 1 gram of gold
You should. If you can get away with it, of course.
It was a lot of fun working on this video. Thank you for the opportunity.
thank you SO MUCH for making the video finally something GOOD about Islam IN the Internet
Your pronunciation of the arab words and names definitely added great value
In Which Dan Carlin podacst did he talk about the Islamic world? I'd like to listen to it
@@dedsecwd This is called Da'wa, islamic propaganda. The islamic golden age happened not because of Islam but in spite of it. Many scientist had to fear for their lives whilst inventing things that went against islamic teachings. Most inventions were made by former christians or pagans who were forced to convert to Islam. There is nothing scientifical in Islam, the Quran teaches that the earth is flat and that the sun sets in a muddy spring...
@@DantesDarkside what are your evidence? no evidence,not true...i am tired of telling the truth when everyone just sucks and just gonna go to hell when they die...da'wa is not a propaganda...propaganda tells about the lies....the only good things...hear one of the sermons...they are not biased...the earth is not flat because they were evidence of it and the sun does sets in the muddy springs...it means it was saw sets in the ocean...
There are some salty people in the comments. Why cant people just accept that Islamic empires actually contributed to our advancement as a a species? When other empires do the same thing we talk about how great they were, point in case the Roman empire, ancient Egyptian civilization, but we have some issue accepting this part of islamic history? Modern day fundamentalism and extremism is a result of several things (dogmatic and literal interpretations of islamic texts, colonialism, etc) but we shouldn't project our opinions about the current state of Islamic communities onto the past.
@Lucius Sulla Wahhabism would've propelled the Islamic world back in the Golden era. Abdullah Ibn Wahhab dreamt of just that.
They can't fathom the fact that Sharia Law was the driving factor behind all of these achievements.
Because there is and has been a very real movement to disrespect history and lie about Islamic accomplishments in order to make islam more acceptable to westerners. Most of the time achievements accredited to Islam did not actually come from Muslims or Islam. Islam retards the pursuit of knowledge
@Lucius Sulla Name me a pre-Islamic Persian scientist who was on par with the likes of Ibn Sina,Al-Biruni,Al-Farabi,Al-Khawarizmi,Omar Khayyan,Al-Razi and so on. I'll wait. Oh and btw,all of these people were religious and even claimed in their books that religion was what drove them to do what they did.
@Lucius Sulla the story of Omar ordering the destruction of Persian books is a very weak story because the main Persian libraries were in ctesipan which was conquered by treaty while the story talks about a non identified city in Persian land making it a weak story also ctesipan most prestigious learning institute the Jundi Shapur survived till the 3rd hijrah century (9th century AD) 270
Fun fact: There is a chapter (surah in Arabic) of the Qur'an, more precisely the 30th chapter, titled Ar-Rum, meaning "The Romans" in Arabic, which at the time, referred to the Eastern Roman Empire.
The first verses of the surah (chapter) refer to the defeat of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Sassanid in the spring of 614 during the Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602-628.
While in the third and fourth verses, the Muslim community is promised that the Byzantines will reverse their defeat into a victory "in a few years' time".
It just very interesting for me when learning about this (I am a history student)
Wow
Proof the quran is from the *one* who knows all.
Subhanallah
I read it like al ram and I asked my mom she was like do u mean a-room? I was like ooooooh
Sorry but what does it mean? I don't understand
Another Jewel that lost same like Library of Alexandria
@@SWiftxFuRY who said that
@@SWiftxFuRY Not even close
Pajeets: _"Zero and Algebra created by us"_
Atheists and secularists: _"None of the scientists and philosophers were religious or even theists."_
Neo-Zoroastrian Iranian nationalist: _"Actually,it was the Persian Golden Age! They were Persian,not from Arabian religion!"_
@@tasinal-hassan8268 well done that's the entire summary of the comment section
The library was really destroyed by Christians because, among other reasons, the head was a girl. They burnt it to the ground. By the time muslims arrived, there were hardly anything left (comparatively) and they burnt all but a few books a renegade stole.
Weird that kings and generals have similar episode few hours later.
it's called telepathy
Would not be surprised TH-cam data feedback tells them Thursdays at this time is the optimal moment to release videos. Combine that with it currently being Ramadan, and the coincidence doesn't seem so strange anymore.
I was actually quite surprised as we did not coordinate. However this episode was prompted by a specific Patron request so its possible the same individual requested a similar topic from them. At the same time its a great topic to explore so I'm sure they would have gotten to it at some point anyways.
Honestly I was very happy because they're both two of my favorite history channels ever. And they actually tackled different aspects of the topic which made this even more enriching.
The patron must be twice as happy. Just imagine: "Hm, let's try it on both channels, maybe one day one of them will use my idea. Wait, what's that? They both heard my request and released the video just few hours apart? It must be my birthday today!"
When you feel that you have reached the peak of glory, be sure that this is the beginning of your downfall .. This is the lesson from history
*Looking at modern society ..*
wait till you see america fall
@Matt D I hope it is a peaceful economic loss and not some bloody civil war or world war.
yea now its time for west downfall
History repeats itself. Someone reaches the peek of glory, then they fall. This and the ancient greeks are good examples. Sad though :(.
Reviewing this to prepare myself for some Assassin's Creed Mirage lore
Walking around The House Of Wisdom. Reading all those historical facts with the best soothing instrumental in the background
Invicta and Kings&Generals on the same day? Yes, please.
Lucas Dimoveo I know right I love them both
And the same topic
so, what's the problem?
@@Iammozzarellacheesewithbread So it is kinda weird. Plus the same sponsor, i think.
True love = the love of God!
*God himself went to the cross for you out of love for you as a human being*
Philippians 2:5-8
"its the Baghdad house of wisdom"
History of the world, I guess?
Just in time
Islamic golden age!
🎵 not any more 🎵
@Marshall Kinnaird Jealous?
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Yi Ge I love conquerors blade it’s amazing your probably paid for don’t listen
lilblondeboy he’s not attacking the game he’s attacking the practices taken up by the devs and publisher
Thanks for the warning.
It's a Chinese company after all isn't it?(correct me if I'm wrong, I have a terrible headache right now so I'll not google it)
@@lilblondeboy4142 Wait, you're being paid!?
@@JonatasAdoM it's made by Booming, a Chinese company, and translated and published by Mail.ru, a Russian company. Mail.ru's sister company My.com, handled the publishing of the game in Europe and North America.
Babylon was such an amazing city...Sad that we can't admire it's former glory now
Yea because America had to "free" it
Nothing good lasts in the hands of backwards, murderous fanatics. Look at what they've done to all the former Isis territories.
Babylon was invaded and faded before Islam.. there was NO Arab role in its destruction and loss of influence. The Babylonian Empire invaded by the Achaemenids at first in around 500BCE, then the Achaemenids were invaded by Alexandar and the Greeks around 330BCE, and Babylon was under Greek control for the next 100 years or so, until the Parthian Empire invaded it again. Even after the Parthians, the Romans invaded around 120AD, and by then, Babylon was not heard of. And then, there was 400 years of Sassanid Rule.. until 640AD, when the Arab Muslims invaded. In reality, the Arabs toke over Mesopotamia over 800 years after its decline. Also, the Arabs actually rebuilt Mesopotamia and gave it influence by making their capital Baghdad situated there.
Mr. Joker. Shouldn't you be dancing on a staircase somewhere?
th-cam.com/video/t_Qpy0mXg8Y/w-d-xo.html Enough said
Some one :"what would u invent next?"
Golden age muslim :"yes"
Yes
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Too bad the middle east have fallen so far behind their former glory.
@@Real_Tower_Pizza O I L
@@Real_Tower_Pizza it could still happen if the west stops interfering
Crazy how many western ideas and famous people would have been forgotten if not for the Arab golden age. Their openness to knowledge from all sources truly is something that should be replicated to this day
Such are the stuff that you dont know buddy, I've seen more narrow minded ones compared to 'openness to knowledge' dudes
Call it the Islamic Golden Age. Ethnicities don't matter.
The translation & continuation of knowledge from European Classical Antiquity is the only benefit of the Arab “Golden Age”.
@@ROMA--AETERNA And refutation of Greek works as well.
@@ROMA--AETERNA What about advancements in the field of medicine?
It is sad to see how many of the Middle Eastern people have forgotten their own scholars. When visiting Morocco and UAE, people in the bazaars and local universities, knew very little of the titans mentioned in this video. In contrast, I have little trouble finding people who want to talk about titans of the West like Neitzsche, Galileo and Da Vinci in countries like Germany, Australia and UK, not only in universities but also in common Cafe.
What do you expect from people that never advanced past the 1200s?
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The main reason for such ignorance is colonization, it was hard for those living under colonies to remember the giants of philosophy and science when they were denied education and their homeland was being leeched by foreign powers and to top it all of political authority was fractured, corrupted and the people divided.
We do not forgot our own scholar nor we will in the future
That is what happens when your countries get "arabized". The "islamic" golden age happend because the arabs conquered peoples wwith the richest intellectual traditions. You don´t have many famous arab intellectuls because most of them were Persians, mediteranian, syrian etc...
This honestly is one of the best videos I have seen on the Early centuries of Islam. I plan to use this for my AP history class. Thanks so much for all the people who helped put this together.
You'll receive a big wave of hate for this one, but you Also gain a huge respect from those who only wants the truth.
The numbers in 0:20 ! Now I know the logic behind the design! Fantastic
As a math teacher, you should haver learned that in School.
Marcus Vinicius Magalhães de Almeida im sorry to dissapoint you but absolutely nobody learns this stuff in school
The numbers are actually from India.
@@ROMA--AETERNA
indian numbers : ۰ - ۱ - ۲ - ۳ - ٤ - ٥ - ٦ - ٧ - ۸ - ۹
arabic numbers : 0 -1 -2 -3- 4 -5 -6- 7- 8- 9
@@tamazghaunion9158, that's a transliteration; Arabs did not invent numeral _digits,_ especially *zero.* The “Arabic” numbers you typed are the _Romanization of transliterated Indian numbers._ 1, 2, 3,… should really be called Indian numbers (obviously Romanized in the West).
All Empires are inherently unjust, but we got a lot to thank those scholars for. I hope one day we'll live to see Baghdad become the cultural hub of museums and history it's meant to be!
Nice episode, I wish you could mention that the golden age was able to exist because of arabic monopoly on trade with india and china, ended with the mongols taking control of the silk road and placing own rulers in india. Similar trick was later used by the ottomans and for that reason portugal and spain (using italian sailors) started looking for their own path to gold.
mongols didn't conquer India. they didn't cross the Indus River. but their descendants like Mughals ruled it , starting from 1526
Thats how it works, when you dominate the trade networks of the world economy, you get a golden age. When you don't anymore, your golden age stop
@@EmilReiko china is making their own now
lqqw123 That’s not the reason why Portugal and Spain started looking for paths towards India.
In short, if you control the silk road, you get rich enough to spend money in education and writing which back then was almost a luxury
4:48 In my opinion it is very important to mention, that these translations of ancient philosophers, doctors an humanists were essentail for the Renaissance in Europe because many originals were either lost, destroyed or locked up in catholic monestries because they were regarded as "heathen literature and thought". only monks that were "firm in their beliefs" were allowed to study ancient works, and that only for historic purposes.
the works of the ancient artists, philosophers etc were re - retranslated from arabic into latin and italian and paved the way for the renaissance to happen.
YES but These Racist dogs still cannot accept the fact that ISLAM is peaceful religion and the western people deny that
@@dedsecwd Silence. You call them dogs? You dehumanize them? Who is truly peaceful as we have seen the trend to dehumanize your fellow man begets the most destructive acts against him. Silence, YOU DOG, for you are little more intelligent than a dog in its foolish obedience and servility.
@@joeherm lmfao it's just like how they dehumanize us by calling us terrorist that kills innocents and some even call our religion satan religion even though,those killers are apostates and they ARE NOT ISLAM and YOU DOG for behalfing for the racists and someday your children start using abuse words when they can start talking just like how their parents abusing muslims all over the world when muslims is NOT the one created all of the destruction all over the world...you can even saw it in every video of a racist mocking a muslim women with her child...you call that what? and then you get triggered by me saying them dogs when i pointed that word to the racists,and that means you are a racist because you get triggered by a anti-racist comment LMFAO and THEN proceed to call me dog after saying that i'm dehumanizing people by saying the word DOG...
@@dedsecwd There are many in the West who are apostates and have abandoned the good word of God and Christ and so will pay for it, but their rejection of the faith should mean that their actions not reflect it, just as the misuse of Islamic beliefs should not reflect upon those peaceful worshipers in the Middle East.
@@joeherm The problem is they are fucking racist don't you fucking understand by WEST I mean all racist people in the west that hate ISLAM... ask every muslims in the world they are not racist plus,they pray for the good health of every people in the world including christians...
Islamic Golden Age: We're going to the moon next.
Mongols : Not.
Tss
Mongols become Muslims so we won.
Ramon George Atento Though technological progress in the Islamic world was already in decline prior to the Mongol invasion, as far as I’ve read.
@@GM-xk1nw But we lost our scientific knowledge,our light.BTW we had Ulugh Beg afterwards but he was not entire concept of Islamic Advance,same with the Mehmed the Conqueror.We had remarkable people but Golden Age was lost already
@@GM-xk1nw who's we?
@@daimyopikachu8108 Ulugh Beg,Aksemeddin,Taqi Ad Din,Piri Reis,Tipu Sultan,Mimar Sinan and so on.
The house of wisdom consisted so many books that when the mongols destroyed the library and threw all the books on the river, the flow of the river stopped and its colour turned black due to the ink of
the books.🙁🙁
You might want to correct your spelling there, it's 'Mongols' not 'mongs'. The word 'mong' is a slang term for someone that is an idiot. It's sort of like saying they are retarded. I just thought you should know :)
That’s a LIE! They are talking about the knowledge used to pump oil... the books are the instructions, the river is the source/location of the oil, the flow of the river stopping and turning black from the ink is the pollution and destruction caused by the oil to the natural environment... even though the oil is not directly underneath the river, the river is a source of knowledge and wisdom and wealth(like a river bank or the Egyptian Nile river) rivers are symbolic of mankind, culture, wisdom, community, it’s a singularity that brings man together as one single source for life because of its multi dimensional use and free flowing qualities much like oil is used in modern economy...
Bullshit
@@ethanallenhawley1052 it's not bullshit. If you don't believe me then Google it.
Sounds like the slight retelling of a story about Islamic conquest where the heads of kafir's were stacked in a dry river bed until a stream of blood ran from the nonbelievers.
Wrote a 25 page paper for my undergrad on the impact of the Bayat Al Hakim on the Italian renaissance. Loved the video
@@raizohan2986 Let me check if I have it on any thumb drives. I wrote the paper a few years ago.
@@JediTempleToys id love to read it
@@JediTempleToys I want to read it please please please
My favorite historical era, hell yeah! Also, man, would have loved to work in the House of Wisdom back in the day. All that scholasticism, all that translation. Forget LAN parties, give me the Nerd Den!
You sure about that? Their annual budget was only 950K Gold Dinars ($150 mil). Those guys had nothing to do but argue, read, write, and only grow and prosper as they did more.. it is risky when you reward research for research sake like the Caliphs did. They had little red tape and even the worst hand writers could make a living..
You don't need to dwell in ancient libraries to learn, internet is also a house of wisdom, full of intellectuals and deep thinkers
@@cv4809 Internet is THE HOUSE OF PROPAGANDA
Most of it would be considered wrong by todays standards though, there is only so much you can learn about the world with medieval tech.
@@cv4809 The internet houses as much info as it does misinformation, lies and selective obfiscation. The important thing is a trained mind no matter if a thousand years ago or today.
cant we just admire the history and documentary instead of pulling all the hated card?
How the mighty have fallen.
Back then, the Islamic state was filled with rationality and academic research but now, it is full of civil war, bombing and blind fanaticism
This is tragic
@Evalation - It will probably happens to the modern society too ..
@@CBRN-115 please read now about present day☪️
I will say this Colonialism has not ended..... it evolved. let me explain. before colonialism " ends " the west chose the leaders of countries to keep their interest in regions take france for example.
www.ieri.be/en/publications/wp/2019/f-vrier/france-still-exploiting-africa
and take me for example. i am from the middle east and here our " dictators" have been chosen by the west not by us and here they uneducate people Historically , economically and religiously because that's what sustain their rule and my country is rich ,but money is nothing for me and for us muslims in general and here we eat we drink and we sleep ( not me i always study and seek knowledge in all fronts as best as i can and am a civil engineer ) even the cattle eat drinks and sleeps. here🇰🇼 courrption is too obvious and we muslims are in phase one and that's " Realization " to be fully aware from politics to history to religion. and every time a Muslim nation rises the west is unsatisfied and want to overthrow the government. Gaddafi,mursi,Yemeni leader Salah , King faisal in the 70s ( he got assassinated) ....etc way a lot i can't go over them all.
HOWEVER, before the Arab spring this i admit was not clear to all of us ,but after the Arab spring EVERYTHING WAS CLEAR. we now came to realize misery is built by the happiness of others and our leaders and boarders were chosen and drawn by the west and we must amd will over throw our governments and stop the western intervention in our lands. sorry forgot ( the western people have nothing to do with their governments in fact we are all slaves to this corrupted system we live under " capitalism " or communism both you use " banks" made you know by who i don't have to explain).
now about "slavery has evolved" and this time it favors no race only one in fact 👃 and it favors mostly the dollar. we are born to serve and sustain the system and the system milks the life out of us and we gain " invaluable paper money " in return and sometimes we get in debt which is literally an invisible chain in the neck. basically we are living inside bank and the bank choses who succeed and who doesn't and the bank plays with economy and who built it? "the red shield" known as the rothschilds.
our muslim lands are the battlefield of the super powers and when you say next time why refugees are in Europe ask yourself what caused them to be there? that's the correct question.
Russia is causing the refugee crisis in Europe by bombing the Syrians and helping Assad to kill his people and the refugees are a toy to send them to Turkey and Europe to weaken their economy and make the left wing fight right wing start wars. Russia has an agenda and don't get wrong Russia, china and America/western Europe are fighting for their agenda to who rules who. all of them are trash.
now i want to put it in conclusion. " REALIZATION LEADS TO REVALUATION AND REVELATION LEADS TO REVOLUTION " SOMETIMES IT LEADS TO A VERY DIFFERENT R AND THAT'S RADICALIZATION AND THAT HAPPENS WITHOUT BACKBONE. that's why people go far left or far right. because they are weak in character and btw left wing right wing is a toy for the system no matter who wins the system decides everything not the people nor the government.
We muslims are in phase one ,but obviously Turkish people has finished phase three. and we look forward to unite with our Muslim brothers and sisters and no islam is not an Arab please don't let me write about it and Arab is not an ethnicity it's a language.
the world is Suffering from western imperialism ( not the people unlike you we understand) most people walk with where the wind pushes them am not like that i hope you understand now.
@Jimmy Neutron being bad at fighting? it's not about fighting you obviously don't understand at all the history and the politics. my ancestors literally took your ancestors head and wiped the floor of Al Sham ( Levant) with it. what i mentioned previously is true my previous comment, but obviously you lack reasoning and want to take things personally with me.
Foolishness
Well guys,that is how world is working,in one time we are the mighty one but in another time we can be the weak one,so we can be humble when we are mighty and we can be patience when we are weak
Dang... i didn't know it was a competition, but you just won it. I really liked Kings and Generals take on this topic, but I love this one. Al-Muquadimmah's pronunciation and passion really upped the quality here. This is awesome.
Just be careful, because now I'm sure they'll try to outdo you on the next one lol.
props for the extra effort in pronunciation, very appreciated!
oh how the mighty had fall, look like the Islamic world now is experiencing what Europe had gone through in 8 - 9 cent, they own "dark age". let hope the Islamic world will soon get out of this woeful state and join the rest of the world
Yes if only the United States didn't prop up Saudi Arabia and fund terrorism, and the UK didn't draw scribble lines for borders after WW1
@@omarshakkur9551
Yes, his influence is exactly the problem.
@@Lilliathi you claim, but what if u take a look at what your western geniuses said about him and see which kind of influence? Do not listen to me nor to any muslim just seek the truth yourself, and i can suggest u some books to read thats if u ask me. Be safe
@@omarshakkur9551
I've already read your books. The western geniuses were wrong.
@@Lilliathi its not my books, its their. And im really amazed by your daring to say they were wrong even before u read to em!
Hats off to you! You succeeded.
The House of Wisdom was certainly impressive. As is this video. I did enjoy it a lot. I wonder what could've been achieved had this golden age of science continued for a few hundred more years.
@@ibrahimmustafa2481 don't blame the mongols, blame us who failed to protect our most precious treasures.
@@عثمان-و9س a very rare and unique point of view that i fail to notice in our muslim society as we drift further and farther from this golden age. I respect this well thought point of view.
@Muhammad Haider Ibn Akhlaq Yes bro
@Muhammad Haider Ibn Akhlaq fucking chill dude
@@عثمان-و9س YES
Imagine what was lost under the Mongols
Invicta grabbed my curiosity, but Al Muqaddimah now have my attention.
Nice
Noice indeed.
I think every Tunisian has a copy of it in his home , it must be one of the first non fiction books I have ever read . IT maybe important to point out that there are inaccuracies and wrongful conclusions in it ( for example the origins of the Amazigh) but as a whole it's a great read , I never did read it in any other languages except Arabic so there maybe a different feeling to it . All in all that book and Ibn Khaldun
are considered as source of pride in Tunisia.
It’s a stark reminder that a advanced society can regress
All it takes is killing a few peaceful merchants then doubling down. Baghdad still hasn't recovered since 1258.
@@MartialBorschel
It was a separate kingdom that did it. The khwarzmian kingdom that was ruled by Turkmen and most of the Mongol federation were the same Turkmen
@@morningmidnight9398 Right but doesn't it seem odd to make it that nuanced when the overall video takes an islamic view as opposed to solely kingdom by kingdom. Same logic holds here then- you have a kingdom incurring the wrath of a greater power and it affecting the broader islamic culture.
@@MartialBorschel The Islamic Golden Age ended in the 18th century.
@@tasinal-hassan8268 per who's metric? If it extends past several empires collapses and rises, it isn't a golden age.
I'd accept 8th-13th centuries, but past that is just ethnonationalism making them lose their sense of reason.
The lesson: Every time you will try to create open society dedicated to progress and wisdom some idiots with sticks will come and ruin it.
Nowadays the idiots with the sticks are mostly funded by the CIA
Just don't forget that in all that "openness" and "progress" they still had institutionalized slavery and they still did military conquests. Today that's often brushed under the rug and they are viewed as some kind of a perfect utopia by Westerners laden with guilt and self-doubt.
@@praevasc4299 1. "had" is not the correct word... Slavery still exists, we just call it with more pleasant word. 2. I didn't ignore the fact of military conquests, but I was talking holding in mind later phase, when they became more civilized. 3. By no means I believe in possibility of existence without wars, nor into utopias. 4. Thx Cthulhu Im not Westerner laden with guilt and self-doubt. And PS My comment must be concerned as a warning to anybody thinking about the idea of purple-happy, free society...
@@praevasc4299 most ancient socities had slavery to some extent. Even those in ancient greece, even in the Arab caliphates, in china, etc. The arabics were pretty damn advanced for their time, especially with the tolerance of other cultures in their empire, as a lot of places still had religious violence against those they disagree with. Slavery was a more publically accepted institution back then, and a society from back then having slaves doesnt necessarily take away from their advancements (that being said, im not sayin slavery isnt bad. It definitely is)
@@Number1Irishlad I wasn't saying other civilizations didn't have slavery. I'm just saying that those who attack Western civilization and romanticize the Islamic one, are hypocrites, because they all tell about slavery in the West while they don't mention slavery elsewhere.
Who else hates the new YT comments system?
David Davis I only use my phone for YT and it’s awful
I click the x over and over again, shit
David Davis what changed?
Toer van Merwijk On the Phone, comments are at the top now, and it’s awful
@@daviddavis4885
Not on my phone but that really sounds aweful what you are describing.
when you said muhamad. you forgot to say peace be upon him
Everything in this video is done exceptionally! Good job guys!
Keep pumping out this quality content and you’ll hit a million subs soon
As a Christian, I am truly grateful to our Muslim brothers and sisters for contributing our technological progress during the middle ages.
Stop virtue signaling
@@rodgermurphy5721 stop being an asshole
Oh yeeah this comment section its gonna be juicy and spicy
Hahaha my first thought when i got the notification
gotta love that unjustified 10 to 1 like to dislike ratio there
Just like Syria now XD
(bombing sound)
Somebody tell me when there are more than 69 likes, I don't want to be the guy who ruins it.
@@VainerCactus0 theres more than 69 likes now
15:15 its disingenuous that you try to represent him as being the first man to do this and try to credit to the islamic golden age. Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes became one of the most famous mathematicians of his time. He is best known for making the first recorded measurement of the Earth's circumference, which was also remarkably accurate. Because of this i get the feeling that that isn't the only disingenuous insinuation in this video.
@@serviam4161 Brett bro were you in my mind? I'd post it too.
True , even Indians did contribute a lot to the scientific discource. Under sassanian rule , In Khuzestan there was university which is a melting pot for Ideas from East and West. During the Islamic Golden age, Byzantine Empire did exist and a lot of texts contributing to renaissance came after its fall in 1453 to the west , not from Baghdad
Actually he never once states that Al Biruni was the first to calculate it . He simply states that he calculated it. Im not sure what you were listening to but it clearly wasnt the video so try and listen before making such a claim.
But he never said that... he said that Al-Biruni calculated the circumference of the Earth very closely... not that he was the first to do it. I think you're overreacting quite a bit, this video is nowhere near to being exceptionalistic imo.
Not saying I disagree but when you think about it neither were they the first. You just have to look at the pyramids for example. It's complexity would indicate that higher dagree of knowledge was discovered waaaay back in history than we'd like to admit. Who's to say there wasn't many "sacking of Baghdad" in previous history, 5-10-20 thousand years ago?
So for you to make these claims would be disingenuous too
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An amazing insight into a world that already lost long ago. Wonder what happened if the Abbasid never got decentralised and eventually conquered by the Mongols and the states continue to flourish.
One of the great what ifs of history. Honestly the crusades didnt help either. Christian's from Europe considered most of the Arabic works to be heretical and oftend destroyed much of what they found in huge book burnings. . . . .a tragic loss for all man kind, agian organized religion proves itself the enemy of progress
@Johnny Cage they tolerated science, that's about the sum of it.
We would have been travelling through galaxy to galaxy
I want to write that novel
Due credit, such scientific achievements. Very insightful and educational. If it wasn't for Arabic scientific achievements European would still be in the dark ages. Thank you for the knowledge.
Those drawings are amazing!
Courtesy of our amazing Gabriel Cassta. I'll be sure to upload the art for patrons soon.
Most of them were stolen from European societies after they killed all the men, raped and slaughtered the women, and defiled all the female children before selling them into slavery.
@@mattbrown5511 That's funny... because that's describing what the white man did to the rest of the world for the past 400 years...
th-cam.com/video/t_Qpy0mXg8Y/w-d-xo.html Watch then make that same assertion. I won't hold my breath.
@@mattbrown5511 Hold it..
The next part should be: The descent of Islam from the Golden Age to Al-Daesh. That too would be very interesting.
That's a thousand year jump so much more happened in the time between those two events
It will be painful to you white folks. Because the cause is obvious.
Judging by the comments, many viewers would expect that video to blame Islam for Daesh. There'd be a lot of butthurt when Colonialism and current Western foreign policy is brought up. The existence of Daesh is Cause and Effect. Without certain events, like the Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, or the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, Daesh wouldn't exist.
@Lachlan Allen There isn't an ounce of self-hatred in me. Pointing out the truth isn't self hatred. Western foreign policy has a role in a plethora of issues ranging from terrorism to mass immigration.
Regarding Wahhabism, Britain did actually support the Wahhabis revolt against the Ottomans.
Also, imagine blaming Islam for Takfiri groups when Takfirism is condemned in the Qur'an as a major sin and Muhammad's son-in-law, Ali, the Fourth Caliph, was assassinated by Takfiris.
Sure, it technically wouldn't exist without Islam also existing, but to make it out to be Islam's fault is disingenuous.
started with the era of Vizier Nizam Al Mulk nepotism and prohibition in the freedom of speech
The convert or die sentiment comes, because Islamic conquest did forcefully convert infidels. Jews and Christians weren't considered infidels. Instead people of the book (Bible). But Zoroastrianism was quelled in the sassanid empire. The religion was never able to recover. Today there are only 100 thousand Zoroastrians in the entire world
The curious exception is Hinduism in India. The Islamic rulers and the Ulema somehow reached a compromise to treat Hindus as an "honorary people-of-the-book" even though they were clearly polytheistic. I wonder why this didn't happen to zoroastrian Iran.
@@firmanimad my feelings on the matter, which by the way I have no idea are true. Is that the abbyad empire, needed the economic trade with India to reach china. So therefore it was better to trade peacefully with the Hindus than to go to war with them. In essence, money trumps all, even religion
Why does Lebanon have 40% Christian population? Why does Egypt have 15% Christian population? Your lies don’t match
@@ahrlj24 I said that Christians and Jews weren't killed. You didn't even read what I wrote. I said the non believer's we're killed. Which is undeniable, I'm not even condemning the Muslim conquest. Conqeurers subjugating people is just part of history. Christians subjugated pagan Vikings in the north and Jews. Mongols sacked Baghdad and ended the islamic golden age. The European countries invaded and subjugated the new world. It's just part of history
@@ahrlj24 lebanese christians are mainly decendants of crusader europeans ane the christian population of egypt is 5.7. They gradually converted over the centuries
I was born in Baghdad Iraq and it's crazy to think that my ancestors did all that
Thank you for adding the fall part at the end for some dummies asking why this all declined.
TYVM for this presentation... I knew some but not all of the information.. the saddest piece was not only the last minute of the presentation but the fact that the lessons learned from the loss of the golden age have yet to be learned by current Islamic leadership ... how much will civilization gain if toleration of others would once again build a new house of wisdom...
I want to build a library so, next generation will know history of humans and enriched in knowledge
If only Islamic countries remained like this even to the modern day
Instead of blind fanaticism and frequent bombing, there would be rationality and conversations about literature and science. It's such a sad thing really
Western countries keep working on preventing that from happening.
Thats how we are...for some reason. It'a corruption that ruins us.
Iran is still in the Islamic Golden Age.
Excuses, excuses
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this video felt incomplete since there was no mention of Al Ghazali and how he influenced many people to practically abandon math and science.
Al-Ghazali was a great scientist.
Tasin Al-Hassan maybe so but he still influenced many to abandon math/science. “manipulation of numbers is the work of the Devil” his words and also Neil deGrasse Tyson mentioned it as well.
_"The second evil likely to follow from the study of the mathematical sciences derives from the case of an ignorant friend of Islam who supposes that our religion must be championed by the rejection of every science ascribed to the philosophers. So he rejects all their sciences,claiming that they display ignorance and folly in them all. He even denies their statements about eclipses of the sun and the moon and asserts that their views are contrary to the revealed Law. When such an assertion reaches the ears of someone who knows those things through apodeictic demonstration,he does not doubt the validity of his proof,but rather believes that Islam is built on ignorance and the denial of apodeictic demonstration. So he becomes all the more enamored of philosophy and envenomed against Islam. _*_Great indeed is the crime against religion committed by anyone who supposes that Islam is to be championed by the denial of these mathematical sciences."_* - Al-Ghazālī, Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-Dalāl), trans. Richard J. Mccarthy, S.J. (Boston: Twayne, 1980), 8-9.
So no,Al-Ghazālī not once implied that mathematics was the work of the "Devil" or whatever that means. These are orientalist myths,much like idea that harems were orgy houses for Muslim Kings. Al-Ghazali's concern for studying mathematics rested not in its inherent opposition to religion or science,but in the philosopher’s monopolization of it solely for the sake of their unsubstantiated metaphysical views. So he was not against the study of mathematics per se; rather, he attempted to facilitate it by pointing out its licentious misuse by his intellectual opponents.
The irony here is that he was warning us about exactly what Neil Tyson pulled off in that seminar a decade ago. (2009 in Switzerland?)
The fact that Neil,a mediocre science writer,attempted to talk about a subject matter he was not an expert in (History), is a textbook example of what Al-Ghazali was so worried about.
He then went on to say that Muslims having only 12 Nobel Prizes despite outnumbering Jews,who have more than 10 times those prizes,is an indication of what Al-Ghazali inflicted upon the Islamic Golden Age.
He missed out on two important things here:
1. Jews are a race. Those Nobel Prize winners vary in terms of personal faith. Einstein was an agnostic deist,for example. A better comparison would've been with Christians.
2. Majority of the Nobel Prize winners are predominantly from the white race. In fact,black people virtually have no Nobel Prizes. Not even compared to the few ones Arabs,Persians,Indians and Bangladeshis received. So does that mean Neil,a black person,is unintelligent and incapable of scientific thought? Is he useless? Does he speak in ooga boogas?
Great video about a subject not often talked about. I'd just like to point out that the Carolingian empire was also going through the carolingian reneissance. It was not comparable at all to the Islamic golden age, however it shows that Europe of the late antiquty wasn't completely abandoning education.
Al-Kindi was born in Kufa (modern Iraq) a Muslim Arab polymath. He was a philosopher, scientist, astrologer, astronomer, chemist, mathematician, musician, physician and physicist who was well known for his utmost interest in Greek philosophy. He was the first prominent philosopher of the Islamic world and was a member of the former Christian Arab tribe of Al-Kinda and was the only pure blooded Arab philosopher. The Italian Renaissance scholar Geralomo Cardano (1501-1575) considered him one of the twelve greatest minds of the Middle Ages.
Al-Kindi became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and lead him to write a number of original treatises of his own on a range of subjects ranging from metaphysics and ethics to mathematics and philosophy and pharmacology. In the field of mathematics, al-Kindi played an important role in introducing Indian numerals to the Islamic and Christian world.
His own thought was largely influenced by the Neo-Platonic philosophy of Proclus, Plotinus and John Philoponus, amongst others, although he does appear to have borrowed ideas from other Hellenistic schools as well. Earlier experts had suggested that he was influenced by the Mutazilite school of theology, because of the mutual concern both he and they demonstrated for maintaining the pure unity (tawhid) of God. However, such agreements are now considered incidental, as further study has shown that they disagreed on a number of equally important topics. Al-Kindi is regarded as the "father of Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world.
During his life, al-Kindi was fortunate enough to enjoy the patronage of the pro-Mutazilite Caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim, which meant he could carry out his philosophical speculations with relative ease. This would change significantly towards the end of his life when al-Mutawakkil supported the more orthodox Asharite school, and initiated persecution of various unorthodox schools of thought, including the philosophers. He also engaged in disputations with the Mutazilites, whom he attacked for their belief in atoms. But the real role of al-Kindi in the conflict between philosophers and theologians would be to prepare the ground for debate. His works, says Deborah Black, contained all the seeds of future controversy that would be fully realized in al-Ghazali's "Incoherence of the Philosophers".
Al-Farabi (known in the west as Alpharabius), the Kazakh thinker, was the greatest scientists and philosophers of the Islamic world. Among the scholars of the Middle Period - (tenth and eleventh centuries ad) al-Farabi was considered the foremost Aristotelian, and was indeed known as the "Second Teacher" (Aristotle himself being the First Teacher). He made notable contributions to the fields of mathematics, philosophy, medicine, sociology and music. He was inspired by the Platonism and Neo-Platonism and was a great exponent of the Aristotelian school of philosophy. He wrote rich commentaries on Aristotle and like al-Razi, he considered reason superior to revelation and advocated for the relegation of prophecy to philosophy. According to him as quoted by Nicholson, “…reason should govern and control the life of man. He definitely did not believe in the inherent doctrines of the Islamic creed and wished it could be reformed guided by philosophy. He was also a major political scientist and may rightly be acclaimed as one of the greatest of Islamic philosophers of all time. While his name tends to be overshadowed by that of Ibn Sina, it is worth bearing in mind that the latter was less original than the former.
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what a great work and the images are beautyfull
I'm hoping for a video about Islam in Iberia and Maghreb ^_^
Hi this video was awesome and also thanks for getting me into history.
Nice to see something that's rarely touched in the western side of the globe
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot. This comment section is gonna be extra lit
@Roo Smith My point is that the Muslims had a golden age before it went downhill but okay, whatever.
We Muslims need to bring back the golden age of islam
Very happy that you chose someone with experience in the arabic language to orate this video! This is what makes this channel so unique♡ thank you
It's not that this goes unnoticed, it's that that Islamic golden age was literally a single plib on the line of science.
Europe's centers of learning were not being 'abandoned or pillaged', Charlemagne and the Byzantine Empire (fresh off fighting Muslim pillagers) both established and upheld schooling.
Vikings?
Oh so that's why when the Arabs gifted Charlemagne a moving clock.. they THOUGHT IT WAS WITCHRAFT.. I love the schooling😂😂
@@user-gm5bt6rb1n Byzantines.. but I was talking about Charlmagne who ruled the Franks.. so it's different.
The literacy rate in francia was around 1%. Even charlamange is thought to be iliterate. He did push for inovation and litteracy but its nothing to compare with the caliphate
@@user-gm5bt6rb1n Heres the source, please read it completely. aeon.co/essays/medieval-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic
There was also a better TH-cam video that described the event in detail but I cant find it now..
Very interesting video, I didn't know much about the islamic empire.
The house of wisdom, shame it was destroyed, same with the library of alexandria. I wonder where we would be should those ancient hubs of science never been destroyed
@Aléxandros ho Mégas some would argue that the link was more direct than that. The Ash'ari school that was more similar to modern fundamental Islam gained prominence after the razing of Baghdad, and they believed that he Mongols were god's punishment for their liberal, open, scientific ways.
@@firmanimad If the sack of Baghdad was the coffin, the Ash'ari school is certainly the nails and Wahabii is being the deep dark hole where it is thrown into.
@@EloHellResident the Communists tried that theory out. In practice, people can still be dangerous violent extremists without religion. Sadly, there is no simple solution to human stupidity.
In a dystopia of powerful 'professors' shutting down anyone who questions the status quo.
Example:. After Newton, physics was assumed to be solved. New research got shut down violently for hundreds of years, careers of brilliant people ruined.
Such things were even worse back then.
@@EloHellResident that doesn't work go live in a communist state and leave the middle east then xD cringe
Are you going to continue the What if Caesar survived? #CAESARLIVES
Very well done video, one of my favourite! Keep it up!
I had hope it would be much longer but it is already enough thank you.
What I wanna know is why the Mongols destroyed the books. They were savage for sure, but also savvy enough to know that books were loot. It's as confusing as it is saddening.
Glad to see something on my religion :D always makes me happy haha, to see non-biased educational things on islam and the history! Thank you!
yeah dude...it is hard here in the internet
Really good video thank you
Btw the Islamic bias in the scrip is unexpected considering how Invicta tries to present history as it actually was.
What do you mean with Islamic bias? Could you please explain yourself?
Its not biased, Invicta posting this is proof that its not biased
Thank you for this great video!
Respect to Invicta, not many channels that would reflect on the history of Islam
can someone tell what is the painting at 9:30 called?
just found out. it is 'In the Madrasa' by Ludwig Deutsch for those interested
Oh thank you for this, it's much needed in today's toxic climate.
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Golden ages aren’t caused by religion really, religion is good for it though golden ages are caused by motivation and careful planning, motivation makes people work if they work they produce if they produce they strengthen the stability of the economy if the economy is stable they have time to learn that learning can be used to improve the ability to produce so that more have time to enjoy life. When I say produce I mean both raw and refined/manufactured goods. The truth is people have to work regardless to have a stable society even the hyper rich, billionaires have responsibilities too, if they don’t manage work becomes inefficient if it gets inefficient it stops making profit, no profit no money, no money, no power, to put it plainly all it takes for a golden age is good production and good management of what’s produced
Religion was only good for the infrastructure that was repurposed to share more knowledge and less superstitious dogma.
Tom Franco no religion holds some weight even now, belief in a higher power gives hope and a feeling of importance people who are depressed don’t tend to make much, although I agree a lot of religion especially Islam is taken too seriously they take things sometimes too literally on things that are metaphorical or spiritual in nature like Catholics believed in the Middle Ages they were literally consuming the body and blood of Christ at mass on Sunday, when it was clearly more of ceremonial thing meant to represent that relationship. Worse is when people follow a faith which doctrine actively encourages violence or references encouragement vaguely. Religion also doesn’t contradict science religion is a subject on the metaphysical sciences is the study of the working of the Universe as far as we know the Universe is separate from metaphysical concepts essentially anything that doesn’t deal with our reality is metaphysical God could be real but he’s not on our plane of existence anymore so Science neither confirms nor denies the existence of an omnipotent being essentially science is agnostic meaning it doesn’t know which is different from Atheism who go I cannot see it and there isn’t evidence past a book and some accuracy questionable documents outside it, therefore it cannot exist, which is frankly wrong the Scientific method essentially says if we find something it exists if we don’t then we don’t know if it exists or if it doesn’t for all science knows dragons might’ve been real they were depicted in every culture, but yes religion is sometimes helpful but most it doesn’t do much.
Sounds to me like you just said religion is the reason we reach golden ages in times
Jon it can be, a golden age means good economic growth and national/cultural unity or patriotism, it’s defined as a time of peace and prosperity, but the American golden age around the 1950s when economic stability and consumerism were on the rise and we weren’t too into the Cold War was because of a general increase in productivity and happiness and a more community invested attitude not due to their faith, Islam is religious even now, that doesn’t mean that they’re in a golden age, religion doesn’t cause a golden age it helps make one easier because it unifies people in hope and community values.
@@_gold_eye_2656 Well yeah,that's why we called it a Golden Age. Also even when the Islamic Golden Age was about to come to an end,Muslim men like Mohammed Ali Pasha tried to industrialize the Middle East. Unfortunately,the British government had him deposed.
Great video! Just finished a section on this in my Patterns of World Civilizations class
Another brainwashed Lefty in the making. Great, just what the west needs. SMH
@@mattbrown5511 Don't be like our fucked up terrorists please, it is not a war between the west and east, it is a war against hate and ignorance.
The rule after the conquests was convert or pay extra taxes as nonmuslims or if you cant do neither flee or die. This was the rule for the caliphates, then the Ottoman empire and it was bloody, no less than the crusades that began centuries later.
@@islamisthetruth3402 then i suppose all the islamic scholars and historians of the past and the present day who mention the Jizya are liars too. Also the various islamic and religious authors and imams who speak of various occurances of violence against nonbelievers (aka christians, jews etc.), about the treatment of their women, who became slaves and propperty of their new masters...
Denying history of religious strife no matter on which side you are on or your ancestors have been is a disgrace to the memories to those who lived in those times.
Islam had an amazing golden age, islamic scholars kept and preserved many ancient texts, books and works of greek and other authors. Those works were lost in Europe and the west and were brought back as booty from the Crusades. But then with the mongol onslaught, the sacking of Baghdad (the intellectual capital of the world at that time) and the declaration of various religious leaders that further research, changes of the doctrine and rules is contradictory to The Quran and the established order hence it must be stopped led to an untimely end of the Golden age. Many stars, pulsars and celestial bodies have arab names, beautiful devices as the astrolabe are of arabic-muslim origin but then you have men like Imam Hamid al-Ghazali who states in his works that mathematics is a work of the devil and it must be banned, books burned and never revisited. Islam gave many good things to the world but as every other religion or influence it had its bad sides and effects. There has never been violent conquest without bloodshed. Being proud of achievements is good, but denying truths you find unappealing leads only to a new downfall. So dear Asmoh you can lie to yourself, to others or whoever you want but the truth is unchangeable as it concerns event that has already happened and even if one day none remembers it.
Islam never treated woman badly, idiot and did you know Spain forced Muslims and Jews living there to die, convert or leave. That’s worse than paying a tax isn’t it?
in fact Mongol invasion wasn't THE reason for ending of Islamic golden age because so many many great men like Hafez, Sadi, Aladdin Atamalek Joveyni, Khaje rashidoddin and so on rised, destroyer of Islamic golden age was Teymur lang/Tamerlane a radical Islamic which still is famous for his destruction. and badoway officially Rashidun Khelaffat/caliphate had 5 caliph. the last one was Hasan and his rule was so short. you really tried to sat right pronunciation and that was wonderful but I wonder why you still call it Mecca instead of Makke?
@Muhammad Haider Ibn Akhlaq yes but it was slow
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People of an IQ above 50, please Ignore the trolls in the comment section. They are looking for attention and everytime you comment against them you are validating them. Have a nice day!
Thats so easy to consider our opponents as dumbass
It's very close minded to label them as morons and trolls. History should be discussed with both sides. However, there are many people in these comments who aren't actually contributing to the conversation but instead simply lashing out, either for or against the video. To those people, I completely agree to pay them no mind.
50 is the collective IQ of an entire muslim village. Please don't procreate. Your kind is not needed or wanted.
Imagine believing that you, who refuse to listen to those with opinions, views, and experiences different from yours, are the intellectual.
@@luxither7354 I agree with your entire comment. However, when a 16 minute video has 20 dislikes in 10 minutes of it's release, You can already anticipate that there will be little to no fruitful discussion occuring. From people shouting profanities to people screaming conspiracies, A huge chunk of the comments seem pretty moronic to me. Please do inform me of any good discussions if you do see them however.
Ibn Rushd (1126-1198):
This great mind born in Andalusia, present-day Spain was an important philosopher and scientist, known in the Western world as Averroes. His influence on European thought tends to be forgotten by Arabs and Europeans alike. But in the 13th and 14th century Averroism was as influential as was Marxism in the 19th century. Ibn Rushd worked as a mediator between the Arabic and the Western world by commenting and interpreting Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato, making them accessible to Arabic culture. He considered Aristotle as ‘the Prefect Man’. He wrote extensive commentaries on Aristotle and earned the epithet of "The Commentator". “He expounded the Quran in Aristotelian terms. In many of his works, he also tried to mediate between philosophy and religion.
Religious leaders did not always praise his works; he was condemned for heresy by the Christian, the Jewish and the Islamic orthodoxy and his works were frequently banished and burnt. Ibn Rushd fell out of favor with the Caliph due to the opposition that theologians had raised against his writings. He was accused of heresy, interrogated and banned to Lucena, close to Cordova. At the same time, the Caliph ordered the books of the philosopher to be burnt, with the exception of his works on Medicine, Arithmetic and Elementary Astronomy (around 1195). Somewhat later the Caliph revoked the banishment and called Ibn Rushd back to Marrakesh. The works of Ibn Rushd also aroused admiration in Europe, even among those theologians who saw a danger for religious faith in his writings. In the 13th century, Ibn Rushd was condemned by bishops from Paris, Oxford and Canterbury for reasons similar to those that had caused his condemnation by the orthodox Muslims in Spain.
Abu Yaqub, the Caliph of Morocco, called him to his capital and appointed him as his physician in place of Ibn Tufail. His son Yaqub al-Mansur retained him for some time but soon Ibn Rushd's views on theology and philosophy drew the Caliph's wrath. All his books, barring strictly scientific ones, were burnt and he was banished to Lucena. However, as a result of intervention of several leading scholars he was forgiven after about four years and recalled to Morocco in 1198; but he died towards the end of the same year. Ibn Rushd was a liberal, an exponent of liberation of women and regarded “much of the poverty and distress of the times arises from the fact that women are kept like “domestic animals” or house plants for purposes of gratification”, of a very questionable character besides, instead of being allowed to take part in the production of material and intellectual wealth, and in the preservation of the same.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780-850):
Al-Khwarizmi was born in Khwarizm (now Khiva) in Uzbekistan. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the house of wisdom (established by Caliph al-Mamun) in Baghdad. He was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. Some of his contributions were based on earlier Persian and Babylonian Astronomy, Indian numerals, and the Greek sources.
His "Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing" was the first book on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Consequently he was considered "father of algebra", a title he shares with Diophantus. Latin translations of his Arithmetic, on the Indian numerals, introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world in the 12th century. He revised and updated Ptolemy’s Geography as well as writing several works on astronomy and astrology. His contributions not only made a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well.
Most of the positional base 10 numeral systems in the world have originated from India which first developed the concept of positional numerology. The Indian numeral system is commonly referred to the West as Hindu-Arabic numeral system, since it reached Europe through the Arabs.
History of Algebra: The Chinese, the Persians, and the people of India used algebra thousands of years ago. The Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks contributed to the early development of algebra. Al-Khwarizmi a teacher in the mathematical school in Baghdad, collected and improved the advances in algebra of previous Hindu and Arab scholars. His works included the translation of Greek and Sanskrit scientific manuscript.
Some words reflect the importance of al-Khwarizmi's contributions to mathematics. "Algebra" is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations he used to solve quadratic equations. Algorism and algorithm stem from Algoritmi, the Latin form of his name. His name is also the origin of (Spanish) guarismo and of (Portuguese) algarismo, both meaning digit.
According to the historian al-Tabari, al-khwarizmi was an adherent of the old Zoroastrian religion. Others considered him as orthodox Muslim. Nevertheless, Al-Khwarizmi never indicated that he was influenced by religiosity or he received any scientific theory out of Koran or hadiths.
During a quick search I could find literally nothing about the archaeology of modern Baghdad. Is all of the information in Arabic or is there actually nothing left?
Try looking in French and German
Yes James because the Internet is the one that erase all of it
@Muhammad Haider Ibn Akhlaq so there is surviving history and archaeology? I was worried all had been destroyed
@@jamesporter628 there isnt much surviving in baghdad, as unfortunate as it is, due to the mongols. Like they fuckin went at it, and got down to the Persian gulf. A lot of the arcitecture from spain and morocco when they were under arabic rule are some of the best preservations of what buildings in baghdad might have looked like back then
15:17 the caption under Thabit Ibn Qurra reads "Father of Statics". The narrator says "Statistics". Statics is an area of study in the field of physics, whereas statistics is a branch of mathematics. Which is correct?
Statistics.
Should be statics
I stand corrected. I was familiar with Thabit ibn Qurra from the idea of a Thabit number which is related to amicable numbers and so I assumed mathematics was what was meant. Turns out he actually was a founder of Statics as well. Having to do with weights and physics...the more you know.
@@Fisherfan48 Yes, it is statics. I posed it as a question in order to politely draw attention to the narrator's error. Glad my (indirect) contribution helped someone learn something new! :)
i almost cry watching this video. Great job, Guys. Such a wonderful content!
I love history, I'll definitely have to check the other channel out. The video is amazing I learned a lot
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As a muslim I loved this video!!Thank you so much for respecting the history of us.May Allah bless you and your channel!!!❤❤❤
Geber, aka Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān, was a prominent Islamic alchemist, pharmacist, philosopher, astronomer, and physicist. He has also been referred to as the "father of Arab chemistry" by Europeans. The historian of chemistry Erick John Holmyard gives credit to Jābir for developing alchemy into an experimental science and he writes that Jābir's importance to the history of chemistry is equal to that of Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier. His ethnic background is not clear; although most sources state he was an Arab, some describe him as Persian. Jabir was born in Tus, Khorasan, in Iran, which was at the time ruled by the Umayyad Caliphate. He was the son of Hayyan al-Azdi, a pharmacist of the Arabian Azd tribe who emigrated from Yemen to Kufa (in present-day Iraq) during the Umayyad Caliphate.
Jabir is mostly known for his contributions to chemistry. He emphasised systematic experimentation, and did much to free alchemy from superstition and turn it into a science. He is credited with the invention of many types of now-basic chemical laboratory equipment, and with the discovery and description of many now-commonplace chemical substances and processes - such as the hydrochloric and nitric acids, distillation, and crystallization that have become the foundation of today's chemistry and chemical engineering. Jabir's alchemical investigations were theoretically grounded in an elaborate numerology related to Pythagorean and Neoplatonic systems. In his writings, Jabir pays tribute to Egyptian and Greek alchemists Hermes Trismegistus, Agathodaimon, Pythagoras, and Socrates.
His books strongly influenced the medieval European alchemists and justified their search for the philosopher's stone. In spite of his leanings toward mysticism (he was considered a Sufi) and superstition, he more clearly recognised and proclaimed the importance of experimentation. Jabir became an alchemist at the court of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, for whom he wrote the Kitab al-Zuhra ("The Book of Venus", on "the noble art of alchemy"). In the middle Ages, Jabir's treatises on chemistry were translated into Latin and became standard texts for European alchemists.
Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (known in the west as Abulcasis) was an Andalusian Muslim Physician born in 936 A.D. in Zahra in the neighborhood of Cordova, Al-Andalus, present-day Spain. He became one of the most renowned surgeons of the Muslim era and was a court physician to the Andalusian caliph Al-Hakam II. After a long medical career, rich with significant original contribution, he died in 1013 A.D. He is best known for his early and original breakthroughs in surgery as well as for his famous Medical Encyclopedia called Al-Tasrif, which is composed of thirty volumes covering different aspects of medical science. He is considered the "father of modern surgery" and as the greatest medieval surgeon to have appeared from the Islamic World whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Arab medicine and Greco-Roman teachings, shaped both Islamic and European surgical procedures up until the Renaissance. His greatest contribution to history is the Kitab al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices. According to Dr. Cambell (History of Arab Medicine), his principles of medical science surpassed those of Galen in the European medical curriculum.
Big....big... respect for those scholars
The comparison with "Europe" during this period is an illusionary one. There was no such thing as Europe at that but rather the slow emergence of "Christendom" which came about as an alarmed reaction to the growth and vitality of the Islamic world.
It's sad to see that in none of these videos is Alhazen mentioned - the greatest genius to have lived between Ptolemy and Newton himself.
Im Christian but i wish a happy Ramadan Mubarak to all muslims
They wish your head on a pike. Being a "good Christian" does not mean being a weak Christian.
Most muslims would have you executed on a pike if they had the power to do so.
Pakistani muslims demanded the death penalty for a Pakistan Christian for an ALLEGATION of blasphemy and actually protested when she was not hanged to death for it.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Bibi_blasphemy_case
Oxbig 951 Thank you much appreciated but I am sorry that there are those with mental disabilities that replied to your comment these weird lies
8jij Joo WHY THE FUCK does every anti-Muslim think that it is like anarchy in the Muslim world. Like have you ever been there? What the actual fuck
Lord Blankinsopp you’ve never even been to “the muslim world”
Mind blown at the numerals images... Each number needs the number of traces it represents
extremely well done, thank you
It’s ironic that the Golden Age of Islam gets eclipsed by the Renaissance in Western school systems when the Renaissance arguably couldn’t have happened without the translations done in the Golden Age
People tend to put their own culture on a pedistal. Perfect examples are America and many middle Eastern cultures; only focusing on their positive contributions without mentioning any warcrimes or horrible things they may have done.
This was Islamic Golden Age part 1 but after this Muslim societies continued to flourish in Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empire.
The Indian economy was large and prosperous under the Mughal Empire. During the Mughal era, the gross domestic product (GDP) of India in 1600 was estimated at about 22% of the world economy, the second largest in the world, behind only Ming China but larger than Europe. By 1700, the GDP of Mughal India had risen to 24% of the world economy, the largest in the world, larger than both Qing China and Western Europe. Mughal India was the world leader in manufacturing, producing about 25% of the world's industrial output up until the 18th century.
Ottoman Empire had the most powerful military in the world for 4 centuries and it contained the most advanced weapons and cannons of their time. They were one of the first armies to mainly be equipped with musketeers and gunpowder weapons which was the reason for their large conquests.
Safavid Empire was also one of the Gunpowder Empire. Although their greatest contribution for me is the architectural wonder in cities like Isfahan.
@Rafael Gonzalez It has become a norm for many countries, only to teach the cultural predecessors of their nation. While the Roman empire takes a lot of attention in western teachings, here in Turkey we do learn barely anything of it, the education is mostly centered on Turkic khanates and sultanates.
One could argue that the need for a renaissance was thanks to the rise of Islam so it's pretty rich that you now go "lol the stupid west wouldn't even be smart if it wasn't for the Islamic golden Age". That's victim blaming.
Because its basic public education, get a brain. Theres a reason colleges have more specialized classes for specialized learning and that people can spend 4+ years Majoring or mastering specific cultural histories. Its more of a shame American education isnt even going into detail truly learning American history and walking out memorizing our own Constitution and relative adept arguments and reasoning behind it by age 18.
Bless you for your historical honesty and your unprejudiced approach.
Unity was the key.
Greatly explained