IN discussions on history, philosophy, and even policymaking, one often comes across references to Islam’s ‘golden age’ — a period that saw groundbreaking progress in rationalist ...

In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little remembered in the west today, the Abbasids reigned ...

In this quiz, Middle East Eye tests you on some of the Islamic Golden Age's most important figures and the ideas they helped develop.

Islam’s invented Golden Age The introduction of print technology fundamentally changed the way one did scholarship in the madrasa.

Contrary to statist narrations about the advent of Islam into South Asia as being of one-sided benefit to the ‘pagan’ region, there is plenty of evidence from Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ to ...

The religious state of Islamic science Turkish-American physicist Taner Edis explains why science in Muslim lands remains stuck in the past -- and why the Golden Age of Mesopotamia wasn't so ...

The period from 750-1250 AD – known as the Golden Age of Islam – witnessed astonishing levels of intellectual production in all fields, with the curious exception of political science. Given ...

KARACHI: The golden age of Islam emblematises the time when sciences, economics and culture flourished in the Muslim world. The rhetoric surrounding its decline blames the works of philosopher and ...

If the Persians could learn from the Greeks and other civilisations during the Golden Age of Islam, why can’t the Muslims of today learn from the West or East?