Purpose
At the end of my speech, the audience will have a clear view of the most important achievements of the “Islamic golden age”.
Introduction
At the beginning of the 8th to the 13th century, a new era has emerged and placed a stamp in the Islamic history that is called “the golden age of Islam”, throughout which the Islamic history was ruled by various important caliphates where many scientific, economical, and cultural developments took place. The Abbasid caliph Harun Al-Rashid was the ruler during that time (786 to 809) with the existence of House of wisdom in Baghdad, all the researchers from around the world with different backgrounds and knowledge gathered to translate the traditional information into Arabic language.
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The creation of institutions
A. Educational institutions
Many of significant unknown educational institutions in the early history have originated during the ancient Islamic world, as of the most important and notable examples being: the public hospital (which was a substitute of healing temples and sleep temples) and psychiatric hospital, the public library and lending library followed by many academic universities that grant degrees, and the astronomical observatory as a research institute.
B. Scientific institutions
Students of Islamic medicine were also capable of being doctors in this field at the 9th century, since they were issued medical diplomas by the Bimaristan medical university-hospitals. The university of Al Karaouine in Morocco is recognized by Guinness book of world records to be the oldest degree-granting university in the world with its establishment in 859 CE. Originated in Cairo, Al-Azhar university also offered a complete variation of academic degrees which consisted of both graduate and postgraduate. Similarly, doctorate was originated at that time concerning the authorization to teach and issue legal opinions which had a positive impact on the Islamic
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Muslim engineers also created crankshafts and water turbines which worked for the better techniques of extracting natural resources like water and fossil fuels, they also established the use of dams as sources of water power. These advances replaced the manual tasks that were previously made by labor with machinery in Islamic world. An uprising industrial growth also emerged to Europe after these technologies were transferred to
The Islamic Golen Age was a tiem of knowlegable prosparity, and intellectual gain. People from
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