¼ Aim: What were the achievements of the Islamic Golden Age?

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Medical Reference Books

When Europeans learned that Muslims had preserved important medical texts, they wanted to translate the texts into Latin. In the eleventh century, scholars traveled to libraries in places such as Toledo, Spain, where they began translating –but only after they learned to read Arabic. Through this process, European medical schools gained access to vital reference sources such as al-Razi’s Comprehensive Book and Ibn Sina’s The Canon of medicine. Ibn Sina’s five-volume encyclopedia guided doctors of Europe and Southwest Asia for six centuries. For nearly 500 years, al Qasim’s work, The Method, which contained original drawings of some 200 medical tools, was the foremost textbook on surgery in Europe.

Tonight’s HW

• ½ page comparing and contrasting Islam with Christianity and Judaism

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• Literature influenced by Indian, Persian, Greek, Jewish, Egyptian influences•Qu’ran considered to be the most important piece of Arabic literature• A Thousand and One Nights: collection of stories which includes Aladdin and his magic lamp.

Literature

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Muslim Social Pyramid

Muslim Economy• Based on Trade

•Being a merchant was an honor because Muhammad was a merchant.

•Traders traded along the silk road with China and India

•Algebra developed (Al-Jabr) 20X + 100 = 300

•Astronomy: Observed Earth turning and measure its circumference• Set up hospitals• Doctors must pass tests• Wrote over 4000 prescriptions for disease treatment

Science, Math, and Medicine

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•Use beautiful writing and geometric patterns to decorate buildings and art

•Adapt Byzantine domes and arches

• Minarets: slender towers outside of mosques to call the faithful to prayer.

Art and Architecture

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Inside the Blue Mosque