What Ended the Golden Age of Islam | Al Muqaddimah

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 Studying the Fall of Empires
02:25 The Natural Cycle of Empires
04:15 What was the Golden Age?
06:22 Did Religion End the Golden Age?
07:26 The Sack of Baghdad
08:30 The Geography of the Era of Instability
11:08 The Golden Age Lite
13:11 The Second Era of Instability and Colonization
14:36 Conclusion

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[CivilWarWeekByWeek]

Everyone talks about the burning of he library of Alexandria but never the sacking of Baghdad

[demiansolis]

Uhm, I am writing from Latin America and it never crossed my mind to reflect on how the "discovery" and colonization of the American continent impacted the Islamic world. You have a good topic to develop another great video.

[luizoctavio]

Absolutely incredible video.
Your channel is the greatest reason I have developed an interest on eastern and islamic history. As I live in a mostly christian nation, this kind of knowledge is not considered particularly useful or interesting by universities and schools here and I had little knowledge on the subject. Your videos, however have helped me (and still do) to understand it is of extreme importance to see every point of view and how rich, interesting and important islamic history is. Please keep up your incredible work

[alexbadila]

"But, as it turns out, you can't eat civilization."

Very clever and funny. Good job!

[yousifbk]

As an arab/persian, i'm happy to see someone talking about our indian brothers 🇰🇼 💙 🇮🇳

[AR-bftm]

I love your channel so much. I wish one day someone could discover all the books lost during the Sack of Baghdad. Could you do a video on how the role women changed throughout Islamic history through the Rashidun, Early Umayyad, Late Umayyad, Abbassid dynasties please🤲

[muhammadabdullahhanif]

6:23 Thank you for debunking the fall of islamic scientific scholarship caused by Al-Ghazali alone. Whatifalthist, your collab always repeat this point as nausem. I wonder how varied their reading list are.

7:14 Whatifalthist also repeated ad nauseum that post-mongolic islam is more conservative. I cannot wait about your video on the topic.

[ercaner_buzbey]

الحمدلله يا أخي You made my day. May Allah give you more power to increase your wisdom and sharpness of your tongue when talking the truth.

[forgottenhistory]

You went into a lot of depth, found it really impressive.

[historicalminds]

You truly are one of the best historians on this platform. Thanks for everything you do!

[JHS]

Shout out to Let's Talk Religion for introducing some of us to this absolute hidden gem of a channel.

[mahinahmed]

Make a serise on Fatimids
And Seljuks🙂
And Mamluks🙄
And meybe Gaznavids

[bahtiyarbabazadeeski]

I also dislike the term “the Golden Age of Islam”, but the reason is that by using it a person emphasizes religious, rather than racial, identity. For example, the science and technology in the late Roman empire, as well as in Byzantium, predominantly came from the Middle Eastern and North African provinces (Syria, Egypt, etc). But many modern Middle Eastern idealogues are only interested in “Muslim” scientists, dismissing the vast heritage of Middle Eastern Christians, Jews, pagans etc. And as for the decline of the Middle East, the reason for that was the same as in many other civilizations – the dysgenic fertility.

[perkristianleirnes]

I appreciate that you stated a lot of this to be your opinions (of course based on proper research), and your quarrel with the term 'Golden Age', as if it were some mystical aura permeating a bygone era. Reminds me of my quarrels with the term 'Dark Ages'.

I realize these terms make it easier to tell a good story, but sometimes stories can get in the way of proper understanding of the past and the present. I've been interested in the goings on outside of mye hometurf for some while, and your content is really appreciated!

[wikiccwaqasWikicc]

Well as per my reserch, there was a school of thought in abbasid caliphate gave more importance the logic AND reason. That metaphysical school of thought was called mutazilizm. The ashari doctrine that we follow today is different from that school of thought. Ashari follows the literal meaning of quran while as mutazilism was very flexible. I mean islamic scholars back then were trying to determine whether free will exists or pre-destination(on the basis of how atom worked). Back then islam was far superior than anything, look were have we come.

P:s. Thankyou for putting these interesting topics here, cheers!!

[lerneanlion]

The Abbasids fell to the same trap that the Romans fell to and that is relying on soldiers of foreign origins too much. In the Romans' case, it's the Germanic tribes. In the Abbasids' case, it's the Turkic tribes. And eventually, both empires are conquered and dismantled into pieces by these tribal barbarians in the end for the sake of loots and promoting slavery with the expense of the destruction of the places of knowledge like the Library of Alexandria in Egypt and the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

[DutchJoan]

Wonderfully researched and put together. I have missed this kind of information growing up.

Btw, coming over from Let's talk religion. I enjoy the collaboration between yourself, Let's talk religion and Useful Charts.

[zawsrdtygbhjimokpl]

7:30 classic mongols, their empire taking up half the screen yet still not fitting

[rabeeajamil]

LOVE IT. The visuals have definitely improved. More power to you