Religious fundamentalism doesn't usually mix well with science....according to wikipedia, the end of the age is variously given as 1258 when Bagdad was sacked by the Mongols and 1492 when the Christians conquored Granada. Arab countries have a serious brain drain going on.Religious fundamentalism doesn't usually mix well with science....according to wikipedia, the end of the age is variously given as 1258 when Bagdad was sacked by the Mongols and 1492 when the Christians conquored Granada. Arab countries have a serious brain drain going on.
I really wonder why so many of the posters rely on Wikipedia so much. Years ago when all of us had to do reports for school, we either had a set of encyclopedias at home or went to the library to use their sets. I can see why, when there was an article on Wikipedia in my newspaper, some teacher said that she didn't allow her students to use that as a source for their reports as anything could be put in. In a regular encyclopedia, you have had scholars and researchers doing a darn good job of giving information to the public.
Caliphate Islamic history -- Encyclopedia Britannica
Yet despite that Sally, your source gave essentially the same information as Wikipedia gave me:
"...it ceased to exist with the Mongol destruction of Baghdad in 1258"
One of the proposed endpoints of the Islamic Golden Age.
Don t Blame It on al-Ghazali
al-Ghazali Abu Hamid 1058-1111
Thank you - that is a fascinating read
History is not always what is in an encyclopedia. What some thing of as history is limit by the writers knowledge.
also limited by the writers' POVs----my impression of history as recorded in the
encyclopedia Britannica----(my fave for most stuff) is the HISTORY ---recorded there in is from the POV ---of armchair englishmen