How Did The Islamic Golden Age Influence The Modern World

The Influence of The Islamic Golden Age on the Modern World

According to Islamic History Online this was a time when Muslims created one of the largest empires in history with inventors throughout the Islamic world, making discoveries in many fields such as agriculture, art, industry, literature, navigation, philosophy, sciences, sociology, and technology. Although there were discoveries in all topics, but the Muslim world is more famously known for becoming a major contributor to science, philosophy, medicine and education. Similar to the The Golden Age, dated from the mid-7th century to the mid-13th century the “House of Wisdom“ was built in Baghdad where scholars came to gather the world’s knowledge and study. It was a place where scholars

Muslims following the guidelines of the Prophet and The Quran studied, searched, and yearned for knowledge. Scholars travelled to teach or share ideas which caused the Arabic language to become more commonly used. Since they wanted greater knowledge, they translated books from Greek, Latin, and Chinese into Arabic which helped diminish the language barriers. At the same time, Arabs were learning from the Chinese to produce paper and books to become more available. This caused libraries to grow all over the Middle East. This all led to The House of Wisdom. This was one of the biggest parts of the Islamic Golden Age, an academic school which was worked as a university. It caused people from all over the globe to go to the city of Baghdad to attend this university. That was the start of the Islamic Golden Age, and after that nothing was the

Their discoveries were nothing without the use of ancient Greek and Roman physicians Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Soranus, Celsus and Galen’s works, they were what helped all their realizations come to life. According to The Huffington Post’s article on Modern Invention by Muslims the first modern hospital was constructed in Cairo, it was called the Ahmed ibn Tulun hospital, created by Ahmed ibn Tulun himself. in their hospital there were working nurses and a training center and all patients received free healthcare. This was where many of the new discoveries found, were put to use and helped patients from all over the middle east. According to the book 1001 Inventions & Awesome Facts From Muslim Civilization a surgeon named Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi is considered the “father of modern surgery”, he invented the many medical instruments used during a surgery like the scalpel and catgut for making internal stitches in patients. He also wrote an important surgical handbook with illustrations of his tools and directions of how to use them. Other medical inventions made were the applications math made in medicine, like a mathematical scale to measure the strength of drugs. Also found was a method for treating fractured bones that is still used to this day, and the discovery of contagious diseases