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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
what happened in Muslim history that science, knowledge, and technology were seemingly abandoned by Muslims? Maybe not abandoned but concentrated to the point it wasn't carried forth for future generations.
Islam Technology made me think of the rest of the items like Algebra and other higher mathematics, architecture, and art. What happened? |
i ask myself the same question. muslims historians have been mulling over this for many years.
religious muslims' answer to your question would be that they strayed far from the religion, and that in the golden era of islam, when muslims followed it closely, they were rewarded with the bounty of knowledge. their quest to re-kindle this golden age is to go back to following islam closely.
secular muslims' answer would be that the golden era was because muslims were open minded and were willing to question and interpret everything that came to them, much different to what is happening in this day and age. that age of openess hasnt really re-appeared ever since.