The Golden Age of Islam, an Introduction
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2019
- When you go out in the middle of the night and look at the seemingly billions of stars, you start to realize your position and scale in a massive and indifferent universe but how many of those stars can you name? I can name around five, Vega, Betelgeuse, Algol, Altair (yes, like Altair from Assassin’s Creed) and Fomalhaut. All of these names are actually Arabic. In fact, around two thirds of the stars that HAVE names, have Arabic names and we have one period of history to thank for that, the Islamic Golden Age.
When Petrarch decided to call the centuries between the fifth and the fifteen centuries the "Dark Age", maybe he didn't have any right to do so, maybe he did but during that time, as the Western civilization went away from scientific studies and into trying to decide how many angels would fit on the head of a pin, the Islamic World illuminated itself with research. They carried the baton from the Greeks and the Romans for the next thousand years till they handed it to the Renaissance-era scholars.
Without them, maybe you wouldn't be watching this video. So, here's to celebrating them!
Additional Facts:
1) Al-Khwarizmi is famous for having said, “The only bra I open is AlgeBRA”.
2) By “Hindu”, I don’t mean only Hindus but also Buddhist and Jain scholars who made scientific progress under the Gupta Dynasty during India’s own Golden Age.
3) On 25th of January, 750 CE, The Abbasid army defeated the Umayyads, sealing their fates. It was also the -1270th anniversary of my 24th Birthday.
4) Since we’re discussing art, I’d like to add something here. Many of these miniatures aren’t from the medieval period. They were created probably recently as tourist souvenirs.
5) Papyrus was a type of writing surface used in the ancient world before Paper. It was made from a plant called Cyperus papyrus.
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While most history channel on youtube emphasize on the history of Roman and European history, this channel take a different route and cover on the history of Islamic faith that is often not covered by other channel. This is the reason this channel is my fav history channel uptodate. Keep up the great work.
Sry but islam isnt like european inventions.
@@josepablitoaurar7051 Literally thanks to Islam we have modern world lol
@@josepablitoaurar7051 what's hypocritical from u is that these are first and formost human inventions.
Wheather its Islamic or Western.
Yet u blindly think inventions from western world are much superior just because they are from the west?
How dense your thinking is.
Humans inspired by different beliefs, views and ideas were the cause for these inventions!!!!
Well, the history channels are in English a western language, so what do you expect?
@@victor382maybe to be different? It does seem like the same thing and nearly everyone I know has little awareness of this so it could be a popularity gain as well
Awesome video! Such an overlooked period of world history (for Westerners that is). Love that you called Ada Lovelace a goddess.
Thank you. The next few videos I'm making will be about the Golden Age. Ada Lovelace was indeed a goddess, unfair to call her anything else.
@UsefulCharts
I think you are not well informed. Most of the scholarship on the golden age of Islam as well as the holistic aspects of the religion is by Western scholars and writers. The information given here, and much more, has to thank western research and books such as (a few examples out of many):
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (6 volumes, first published 1776 - 1789) by Edward Gibbon
2. The Legacy of Islam (first published 1931) by Alfred Guillaume and Thomas Arnold
3. History of the Arabs (first published 1937) by Phillip K. Hitti
4. The Arabs in History (first published 1950) by Bernard Lewis
@@AlMuqaddimahYT are you muslim?
@@haitamc5611 He is
vvwww.faithfreedom.org/Author/Sina.htm
I recently finished reading "The travels of Ibn Batuta", will you be covering him at some point?
Yes, I think the third or forth video in this series.
He visit south Asia country?? ..like acheh n malacca
you don't get discouraged about reading such a long book? how do you do it
"We stand on the shoulders of giants."
- Issac Newton
You mean for sure Betelgeuse ! Incredible to see easily this monster in the night sky ! I love the Arabic for the good reasons and my name is famous, David Therrien Québec Canada ! Choukran jazilan li koulli chay ' in
And many of them were ancient Greek shoulders and some Hindus. There _was_ an Golden Age of learning under very tolerant caliphs for a while but it was not and _Islamic_ Golden Age since it occurred in spite of orthodox Islam that finally was most responsible for ending it. The very influential Muslim scholar Al-Ghazali (d1111) discouraged the deep study of science (it distracted from faith) and encouraged the disbelief in physical causality (Allah causes all motion & change) making Physics & modern science, as it developed in the West, impossible for the Muslim world. By the time of the Mongol invasion, which started in 1219, this flouring of free inquiry was mostly domed with many of its great scholars killed or persecuted. In his excellent book _“Islam And Science”_ Pakistan’s top physicist Prof Perez Hoodbhoy has a section called “ Five Great Heretics”, all famous scholars who suffered under Islamic orthodoxy. They were Al-Kindi, Al- Razi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn Khaldun. Even when it tried to carry over into Spain Islamic orthodoxy came down on it. After all, the Qur'an confirmed in the minds of Muslims for a thousand years (until the infidel scientists corrected) that the cosmos was earth centered with the moon & sun orbiting around it. Of course, there was also the ridiculous seven heavens that no scientist talks of today.
@@endpc5166 Please substantiate your statement relating to the cosmos with proof.
@@abdullahpatel6086 The Qur'an never once informed the crucial fact that the earth rotated on its axis, which would explain the appearance in the sky. Hence when the Qur'an talks of the orbiting of the moon & sun it was naturally understood, as it was by nearly everyone at the time, that the heavens rotated about the earth. Allah let every Muslim for over a thousand years believe the wrong model until _infidel_ scientist corrected. Can't Muslims take a hint about frαuds?
@@abdullahpatel6086 The Qur'an never once informed the crucial fact that the earth rotates on its axis, which would explain the appearance in the sky. Hence when the Qur'an talks of the orbiting of the moon & sun it was naturally understood, as it was by nearly everyone at the time, that the heavens rotated about the earth. Hence A llah l et every Muslim, for over a thousand years, believe the w rong m odel until in fidel scientist c orrected. Can't Muslims t ake a h int?
I am very interested in Islamic culture and history, in our college we focused mostly on European history. Your videos are an excellent source of information for me and they are very well presented! Thank you for your efforts and passion! ❤️
What is even more better is if you convert to islam 👍
@@farisabdurrahman8416 Oh, no, that's esclated quickly.
Faris Abdurrahman for gods sake man 🤦♂️
@@yusuffulat6954 what
Faris Abdurrahman dude what are you saying?
lmao 5:43 u put t-series logo its nice to see a video about education but u put memes into it too
oversimplified : am i a joke to you?
oversimplified is a dumb CZcamsr who does'nt do proper research
@@ateium2409 its called "oversimplified" its simplifies the history idiot
Sulthon al Aufa sorry for my dumb comment .
I judged him from the WW2 video where he referred to the Ethiopians as fighting with bows and arrows .
His newer videos are nice tho .
Once we get time travel, I'll go back and copy all those house of wisdom books in my thumb drive.
Please don't if you are westerner. Dont steal them
@@Goyim-phobic,how would he be stealing them?
Should probably get those books from the Library of Alexandria as well, damn Napoleon burned it all down
@@smith2354 Library of Alexandria was burned by Caesar...
@@smith2354 napolean?
Hey, I am a french students in Sorbonnes University and i wanted to tell you that you work profoundly influenced my vision on the islamic world and history, as much as I love my country I wish more would knew about the greatness of the islamic civilisation : i hope that one day i will be able to share with all my love for this civilisation
@Ian Taylor Loving the history of a civilisation does'nt mean i want it in my country, France culture and history above all else, forever !
@@nice_spear530 I think the Algerians and central Africans would have said the same to your ancestors
Thank you
لا يغير الله ما بقوم حتى يغيروا ما بأنفسهم
Al Beruni himself was very honest when he admitted about a topic like image of eclipses
"This subject is well known to Indians but unknown to Mμslims".
I agree. The same was with al khwarazimi. If u read the actual books of his.
🤡
Persia was always an amazing trade area. Trade from China, central Asia, India, the still rich byzantine empire (through ehich trade with russia and scandinavia came) and the rest of Europe through Venice it truly was the centre of the trade world.
It was, indeed. I actually like to think of it as the Center of the World.
Instead of debating science and technology, now we debate on sleeping on which side is Sunnah. I
Do not think we'll ever recover.
Too true
Oof
Christianity went through a dark age. Now Islam is too going through the same process. After a dark age comes a renaissance. This is the cycle of all major religions. Give it time
well, there's nothing wrong about debating the Sunnah of our prophet. so why are you giving that as an example? we are literally killing each other and bombing our own cities nowadays and you're talking about the Sunnah being the thing that brought us down?!
@Abraham Indra yep sure, we've seen what "secularism" has done to countries like Turkey, homosexuality is allowed, prostetution is allowed, alcohol is allowed, almost the entire country is just Muslim by name but actually atheist, yeah no thanks. Fuck Secularism, and fuck secularists. Our religion has nothing wrong with it in order to be left behind or separated from peoples lives, IT IS peoples lives.
This is an extraordinarily beautiful video. :-)
Yessssss, a new (to me) history channel with high production value and loads of videos on an era I no little about. binge incoming
Thank you for this video very informative. Thoughtful question at the end !
thank you for your wonderful videos... it really helped me to understand Islamic history... bless you
Amazing. Got shivers from some of the imagery.
Excellent video
أحسنت لقد أبدعت في الشرح و أيضاً التصميم
إستمر أيها البطل ❤👏🏻🔝
Very nice video, it really helped with my project and gave me new ideas!
The fact you mentioned the christianism contribution to the Islamic Golden Age, besides you being a Muslim, shows how committed to the truth you are and not with a partial narrative. And for that I congrat you! Besides the fact I live in Brazil (South America) where like 92% of the population is Christian, I am not. I just became a huge fan of your channel because I love to know and understand everywhere culture; we do have an extremely euro centric teaching here in the western. Even the great civilizations that lived here in all Americas are not highlighted in our teaching. Have you ever heard about the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas? They had extremely advanced astronomy, mathematics, architecture and agriculture! They conquered all that knowledge completely isolated from the rest of the world, quite impressive, no? This planet has its richness and uniqueness in every corner, that's why we should work for a better world and prosperity and peace for every civilization. We deserve the best!
The house of wisdom (Bait al hikma) had ppl from different backgrounds...but yes greeks info got translated mostly in rashidun caliphate n got preserved
The cherokee tribe accepted islam n forgot cebturies ago n had archeological findings of arabic crafted ring of muslims n some stuff recently discovered. Muslim had travelled to mainland amerika by use of pier raeesi maps in ottomon era.That map was then copied by christians later n took a lead to amerika..thpugh spaniards fought locals.
Great work. Keep it up bro.
Love your work.... Keep up brother.. We need this
i found this chanel by chance while scrolling through the epic histories playlist catalogue and I'm truly happy that I found this
Well, we're happy you're here now, Thank you.
may ask that why people gave dislike. you cant ignore islamic contribution from your everyday life. dont be jealous
7:36
Sit down
Try not to cry
Cry a lot
Exactly 💯. Video thanks for your great work
Great video mashallah
I died when you showed T-Series
if you died how do you comment? you back to life again?
@@quranPenDQ it's called sarcasm mate
aaaaa-mazing
Thank you! :)
beautiful video! well done.
Amazing animation video a long with the explanation..Salam.
The production value is amazing, and I appreciate your presentation style. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! :)
I have to say, this channel is one of the few sources available for historical middle eastern events that is in english and I appreciate it very much. Often I like to learn history from multiple sources but unfortunately there arent many sources for this information that is easily digestible in english. My arabic isnt great so seriously thank you. (from an arab american who can only speak broken arabic)
في قنوات كثيرة عن التاريخ الاسلامي و لكن باللغة العربية
Loveeee your shows
I was hooked right from the opening of the video! Nice introduction! Also, really nice and colorful animations! :)
Man, you're breath taking!
Like your video style man
Wow, i love this channel.
Damn that ending was depressing.
great work bro .. keep it going
Thank you!
I said this before, this channel needs to be promoted. there are a plethora of history channels on youtube dedicated to the distortion of our history. I always thought we need a history channel! I'm ready to help with research and funding.
Thank you! You can visit my patreon account for support. :)
This dude don't got what it takes in him to run that type of channel we need Qatar to invest in that type of channel
Great naming, titles, aliases, And tags of the stars
Absolutely fascinating video and brilliantly put together, thanks.
Terrific video and a great topic! Keep them coming!
lol t series, jzakallah khair for your works to educate people on the history of islam.
Great animation!
Great video!:D
that end message was very powerful i'm about to watch all your videos to hopefully find out, either way this is a very special and exceptionally great channel to have stumbled upon. Thank you for your work!
Absolutely beautiful. Obsessed with your work right from the first episode. Can't wait until this channel blows up❤
Glad to know its a fellow Pakistani behind it all🇵🇰(:
-Shaheer
Wait...... Al Muqaddimah is Pakistani???
i must say, great work bother.
You are amazing. But please zone in on some of these fascinating figures and talk about their work in detail-- otherwise this video is a collosal tease!
Subhanallah, you make amazing videos for Islam, my brother.
Great video
Really appreciate the work you're putting into these videos.
Thank you! :)
Great video Al Muqaddimah, keep up the good work! One very important thing I'd like to point out is that Muslim scholars and scientists had the integrity to credit the works they built on to their original sources as it was considered dishonest to not do that. Unfortunately, this was not the case with most Europeans and Westerners works as they seem to only credit the works to themselves without mentioning where they got the ideas or the bases of their ideas. This is why a lot of people do not know about Muslim scholars and the Islamic golden age. Furthermore, when they mention the Islamic golden age, they mostly just mention the translation they did without mentioning their contributions and their invention of totally new fields such as the science of optics ( first studied by ibn al-haytham). This is truly sad :(
This page is excellent...From the animation to the clear descriptions...Thank you!
The Islamic golden age is such an interesting time to even hear about. A time when scholars and men of learning were considered to be worth their weight in gold. Baghdad was the world's first wikipedia
5:41 T-Series? In a documentary on Islamic history?
Anyway, The ending was very sad. I wonder what that ink that turned the Tigris black had been used to write.
He just used humour to make ppl understand better. T series represent something made in India at that time
@@faizanshaikh-ow1tu ya and also, this was made in early 2019 when pewdiepie vs teserius was at its peak. So he had to put some reference so that he can get views.
Please make topical chronological playlists on your channel, i.e. playlist about a certain topic/era in which videos are sorted according to historical timeline (e.g. 1CE at top, 21CE at bottom). I've seen that you often upload videos out of chronological (historical timeline) order where video on an earlier era topic is uploaded after the the video on newer era topic. thanks.
noooooo i binged everything in 1 day
I've just found your channel, you have great content.
I'd like to learn more about the golden age of Arabs, does anyone have books or documentaries to suggest?
yeah im actually doing a research about this topic to
WOW ! I got goosebump
Aw! Thank you.
intro music tho
You should make a video on the Berber Kharijite Revolts of 740 to 734 A.D. I think it´s one of the most underrated yet important parts of Islamic history (and by extention of world history).
This is one of the best videos on this period I've watched.
Hey I loved your concept of teaching history through Islamic eyes And will you cover the Delhi Sultanate and The Mughal Empire (considered the richest of its time more than the ottomans),btw love from India.
Thanks. InshAllah, yes, I'll cover those times. It's a new channel so I don't have many videos rn.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT thnks and good luck I think your channel deserves way more subscribers than you have now inshallah
How do you make this type of animation? Can you share the process if possible?
and the audio speed goes down from 2x to 1x... GREAT VIDEO... I like the T-series insignia for India... 1 question... why was it algeBRA not algebra?
that makes sense...
There's some Children's history channels on CZcams as well, you should see those. :\
@@AlMuqaddimahYT plz mention them for me... it will be great help... :p
I've never seen this version of the School of Athens mural. Where did you find this image?
I found it here.
houseofwisdom.org.uk/concept.htm
@@AlMuqaddimahYT Thanks
Where did you find that picture of the school of Athens with Islamic figures? i love it
Internet. houseofwisdom.org.uk/concept.htm
I'm just freaked out when you put 'hanging man' as the persian and T-Series as Indians. lol
Hanging man is from a depiction of a Farsi story and T-Series, well, what's more Indian than T-Series?
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I find you are very much obsessed with your hate for Indians......well let me remind you that India is burdened with Muslims more then any islamic country, which is the biggest reason they lacking behind some where... you and your religion..... nothing about humanities..
@@AlMuqaddimahYT I wanted to get some knowledge about world history ....but I m very disappointed to know the islamic hate
@@sarita_malik I am pretty sure the T-Series references were meant as a harmless joke. I mean, he properly credited, that it was in fact an indian who invented the number zero.
Dont be sad man. lets do second golden age!
its very useful for me because my class needed to research about islamic golden age
Good channel. Turn down the music a bit, distracting.
Great content. Also it's great that counterjihadic trolls haven't found this channel yet. In most cases when a youtuber deals with such matters the comments senction of his videos is a nightmare.
I have a few atheist Jihaadis here already.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT Trust me dude, everything is all right... at least for now.
@Yolo Swaggins Even those are relatively few.
These videos are so well made. Do you make them yourself?
Yes!
@@AlMuqaddimahYT How long does it take roughly and what do you use?
@@Chowder12345able I use Adobe After Effects and it takes around 50 hours.
Abbsid era was golden age of Islam
I love this channel so much only yall can understand
It's a good question in the end, have you come up with an answer?
It's a very heartbreaking moment for people who seeks knowledge to loose such an important hub of literature and knowledge ,lost technology and information is actually great loss for scientific progression itself.
Yep, those bloody Mongols.
Great video thanks a lot, but you said some thing about translation from Hebrew to Arabic, which is not true, the only available Hebrew text were religious text.
You need a good environment to grow a beautiful flower
There are many Muslims now a day who have their own contribution in scientific development
But the problem is that our ignorant leaders in Arab countries who worship money and destroy our countries in the process by the blessings of the country who loves oil
Most of the prominent golden age contributors weren't arab tho
hello brother,can u make video on pashtuns Aka Afghan empires LIKE GHORID(pashtuns of sur tribes but unknown to the historions cuz of their adoption of persian culture),KHALJI dynasty,LODHI Dynasty,Suri Empire(the ancestor of GHOrids) ,hotoki dynasty and Durrani empire,THANKU
brother.. u deserve a netflix docuseries! such informative & engaging videos! 7stars!!
Where is the House of Wisdom originally located? Which part of Baghdad exactly? Do they find its ruins or at least its foundation or do the Mongols literally destroy it to the ground?
Are you sleepy when recorded the audio? Or, are you trying mumble rap? Thanks to caption, I still can understand your words.
Anyways, great job.
Yo!
Hahah dude u funny
How you edit your videos???
This is great. You tell this so precisely and fairly. Also you have a seriously cute voice.
thank u
Great video just discovered this channel and its a gold mine. Are you Muslim?
Thank you. Yes, I'm a Muslim. Sunni. From Pakistan.
@@AlMuqaddimahYT bro do you really from Pakistan
@@AlMuqaddimahYT wow bhai jaan Pakistani mashallah se ab hurjaga hai subhanallah
@@AlMuqaddimahYT wese bhai jo bhi ho we are shia or sunni but we are Muslims and we are one our faith iman was one
@@AlMuqaddimahYT you are from Pakistan
..hahahaha still you are doubting Indian contribution to science and mathematics
..that time your ancestors were also Indian..,hahaha
Itz very usefull
How can I make such videos ?
Bro are you from Pakistan if yes which city
Great work indeed. It’s awesome that you add humour to the videos such as T series to mention Indian creativity. Also God curse Halaku khan for destroying the Islamic works!
love it
“The Goddess Ada Lovelace” lol brilliant and beautiful
Can we argue that internet has brought a new golden age of knowledge ? Only this one is kinda global
it also brought a new type of warrior no kingdoms in history ever witnessed before, the keyboard warriors. you know, like me
@@elkhaqelfida5972 😂
I always loved your maps shown in the videos! Where can I find them??? like digital copies?
Yo, in this video at the timestamp 7:02 there is a really cool image of Raphael’s school of Athens remixed with imagry of the islamic golden age. I find this to be a really cool image, and I would like to ask someone to link me a higher quality version of the image. Thank you and have a great day!