Islamic Golden Age

During the Abbasid Period:
*They held to a Qur'anic hadith that "the ink of scientists is more holy than the blood of martyrs."
*The muslim world became a melting pot of culture and they began the process of collecting and advancing knowledge from around the world which included Roman, Chinease, Indian, Persian, Greek, and Egyption influences.
*The Calisphates established a "House of wisdom" in Baghdad, which became the intellectul center of science, philosophy, medicine and education.
*Muslim and non-muslims were attempting to gather all of the worlds knowledge and transfer it into Arabic.
Last of all in the area of Science the Calisphate recovered much of the ideas of Alexandrian Mathmatics, geometric and astonomical knowledge and enhanced these ideas with Arab scholars.
The advances of math, astronomy, knowledge, Philosophy, and literature in this period is why its called the Golden age of Islam.



Algebra was pioneered by Persian scientist Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, from a text called, "Kitab al-jabr wal- mugabala," and this is where the term Algebra came from. Muhammad Khwarizimi is considered the father of Algebra because he introduced all sorts of new mathmatical concepts he created:
Algorisms, algorythms, Arabic numerals, and the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.
Medicine advances:
Over 800 doctors in the Arab World
understanding of anatomy and diseases
the diffrence between Measles and small pox was discovered
and many authors produced medical encyclopedias that influenced many later Wetern European cultures during the Rennisance period.

Matthew Morton