Epic History. The Abbasids: Islam's Golden Age. Posted: April 2, 2025 | Last updated: April 2, 2025. In the 8th century Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest ...

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.

Indeed this immediate consequence of the Golden Age and decline narrative - i.e., to abandon Islam - is precisely one that is also adopted by right wing Islamophobes in our own county.

Explore the debate surrounding the socalled Golden Age of Muslims, often attributed to the Mutazilite period, which some argue contradicts traditional Islamic beliefs. This era is portrayed as a time ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Islamic ‘Golden Age’ was an era spread across the initial centuries of the rise and spread of Islam, when a heightened amount of intellectual contact of Muslims with the neighbouring world ...

named the Golden Age of Islam, when scientific developments were at their peak. Between the 1200s and 1700s were the middle ages for human civilisation. During this period, Islamic civilisation ...

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 golden after all.