HST 325 Lecture : Focus Questions
28 Sep 2011
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What reasons do they give for its decline: natural philosophy flourished in islamic medieval culture because Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave by learning as much as you can you get to appreciate god"s creations. The empire is very multi at the time wealthy empire access and strong support from libraries and schools etc. Supernatural and spiritual issues became intertwined with natural philosophical ones. They control the big learning centers (library of alexandra) access to greeks and other philosophy. Interest in education fostered the appearance and high status of hakim. Islamic scholars had to conduct their work within the framework of their religion. Islamic scholars were also more interested in testing observations than aristotle or plato. Many islamic scholars were educated as physicians and thus trained through. Islamic alchemy was founded on egyptian and greek ideas about the material world. One of the pillars is going to meca important in religion unifying feature more scholars teaching each other.
