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Golden Age of Islam
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Golden Age of Islam
The social, political and military causes and the effects of the renaissance and the expansion of Persian culture and religion from the 7th century to the 12th century in Central Asia and the Middle East.
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"Beginning almost immediately after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 A.D., within the lifespan of a single generation the Islamic religion began a "jihad" (holy war) of expansion that was to embrace the whole of the Middle East outside of the core Byzantine Empire. Within two centuries that expansion would extend west to the Iberian Peninsula, deep north into Central Asia, and east into the borderlands of the Indian subcontinent. It was an expansion driven, at first, by the Arab tribes allied directly to Muhammad. Very shortly, however, as those desert nomads absorbed centuries-old cultures into their new Muslim faith, a synthesis of dynamics developed to create the "Golden Age" of Islam. That synthesis was to become dominated by Persian culture (Saunders 187-198).Reaching their height of home-grown achievement with the..."
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