11.14 The Abbasid Dynasty and the Golden Age of Islam 750 - 1300 .pdf

The Golden Age of Islam 8th to 13th Centuries Class Agenda for November 14, 2023 1. Warm-up Question and some responses 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how the Islamic world expanded the intellectual landscape of the world 3. Essential Question: How did Muslim teachings influence the knowl...

The Golden Age of Islam 8th to 13th Centuries Class Agenda for November 14, 2023 1. Warm-up Question and some responses 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how the Islamic world expanded the intellectual landscape of the world 3. Essential Question: How did Muslim teachings influence the knowledge of the West and the East 4. Vocabulary and definitions 5. Discuss the Islamic Golden Age 6. Homework: Read the article on Schoology and write a 2 paragraph essay, "How did the Crusades affect the East and West?" 7. Exit ticket In the 7th century, Sunni Muslim leaders were called Caliphs - The Abbasid Dynasty (late 8th century) built up Baghdad under Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786-809 CE) Baghdad was built up to become an intellectual center House of Wisdom in Baghdad In Cordoba, Spain and other cities Silk Road, a major trade route between the East and West Astronomy, Algebra, many translations of many cultures, Canon of Medicine Caliph Harun al-Rashid was a patron of arts and learning and wished for Muslims to lead the world in learning. - The Grand Library of Baghdad, the Bayt al Hikma (House of Wisdom), Classic works of the Greeks were translated here into Arabic and, in time, these works served to fuel the greatest minds of Europe to give the world a rebirth: - The 12th century Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance in the 15th Century. Information in Baghdad was democratized with the introduction of paper. - Paper spread from China, to the Muslim world in the 8th century, and into Spain and Europe (10th century). - Paper was superior to parchment and papyrus Islamic paper makers made more books than those in Europe and did for centuries. - The best known, One Thousand and One Nights, (created in the 10th century and its final form by the 14th century), Mathematics was revolutionised by scholars like Al-Khwarizmi, the founder of Algebra, Abu al-Wafa and others. - They took what the Greeks and Indians had developed and took the next step - They created Algebra, the decimal system, Algorithms, and Trigonometry Ibn Rushd (Averroës) (1126–1198), was a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and many other fields. Ibn Rushd tried to combine Aristotle’s system of thought with Islamic philosophy. - He believed that there was no conflict between religion and science/philosophy - Instead, he believed that there are different ways of reaching the same truth. He believed in the eternal universe, that the soul had one individual part and one divine. The Arabs synthesized the scientific knowledge of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians, Chinese, Indians, Egyptians, and the Phoenician civilizations. they also recovered the Alexandrian mathematical, geometric, and astronomical knowledge from Euclid and Ptolemy. In physics and biology, Ibn Al-Haytham (c. 965-1039) using the scientific method discovered how human vision works