PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Salman Rushdie, Abbasid Caliphate, House Of Wisdom
15 Mar 2014
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Ummayad caliphate grew massively but was rocked by a lot of conflict. Abbasid emphasized that knowledge was of great value, as it says in qur"an. Abbasid was all about knowledge: medicine, sciences, mathematics, astronomy (starting to pull away from greeks), algebra, agricultural advances, economics advances. Still conflicts but generally speaking, it was a relatively peaceful time. Much of the character from this time has carried into modern islam. This was one of the big things about the golden. It was the harvard of the period, internationally important. From modern day spain all the way to modern day iran there was a flow of information. huge exchange of knowledge happening. Not just muslim scholars but christian and jewish scholars as well. Qur"an could not be translated, restricted to arabic. All translations of qur"an are just interpretations, they are not the quran. truest meaning of the qur"an is in arabic.
