Factors that lead to the excellent of Islamic Civilisation

Factors that lead to the excellent of Islamic Civilisation

1. ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate

   • “The ink of a scholar is more holy than the blood of a martyr”, stressing the value and importance of knowledge.

2. the transfer of the capital from Damascus to Baghdad

   • -By the middle of the 8th Century

3. Muslim world became an intellectual center

   • In science, philosophy, medicine and education.

4. established the House of Wisdom in Baghdad

   • both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars sought to gather all the world’s knowledge
     • cultures which collected, synthesized and significantly advanced the knowledge gained from all other ancient civilizations
       • ancient Roman, Chinese, Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Greek and Byzantine civilizations

5. Muslims took the best that each system had to offer

   • ot only streamlined it into a unified scientific model that became the basis of today’s modern science, but also added to – and expanded greatly on – each distinctive field of study.

6. Muslim universities of those days led the world in learning and research

   • hey did not discriminate between different cultures and their collective bases of knowledge, and rarely banned any discussions of ideologies or cultures because they were deemed “Un-Islamic”