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The Islamic Golden Age

The Post-Classical and Medieval World

The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, scientific and economic flourishing across the Islamic world, conventionally dated from the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid to the Mongol destruction of Baghdad, during which centers of learning in Baghdad and elsewhere translated and advanced Greek, Persian and Indian scholarship in mathematics, astronomy, medicine and philosophy.

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Start Year
786 1
Conventionally dated to Harun al-Rashid's accession; the flourishing built on Abbasid patronage from the caliphate's own mid eighth century founding.
End Year
1258 1
Geographic Scope
Baghdad and other urban centers across the medieval Islamic world, including Cairo, Umayyad Córdoba as capital of Al-Andalus, Damascus, Nishapur, Samarkand, Ghazni, Kairouan and Fez 1
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The Post-Classical and Medieval Period, Eras

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Al-Ghazali, Historical Figures

General historical classification: al-Ghazali's scholarly career in eleventh and twelfth century Baghdad and Khorasan falls within the Islamic Golden Age.

Harun al-Rashid, Historical Figures
Source Wikipedia: Harun al-Rashid
The Abbasid Caliphate, Polities

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The Byzantine Golden Age, Eras
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Abbasid Caliphate

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1. Wikipedia: Islamic Golden Age
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    The period is said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate following the Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.
  • Lead section, second paragraph
    In addition to Baghdad, the intellectual and cultural activity also flourished in other urban centers of the medieval Islamic world, including Cairo, and Umayyad Córdoba (capital of Al-Andalus), as well as Damascus, Nishapur, Samarkand, Ghazni, Kairouan, and Fez, and in later centuries, Nasrid Granada.
  • In Group: Eras Beginning from 786 to 919 CE, Lead
    The period is understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809), with the establishment of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, one of the world's largest cities at the time.
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