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Islamic Culture
AP World History
Question | Answer |
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Important Point to know about Muslim states and Empires. | Muslim states and empires encouraged significant intellectual innovations and transfers. |
Innovations provided through the Muslim states | Innovations: Advances in mathematics (Nasir al-Din al-Tusi), Advances in literature ('A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah) , Advances in medicine |
Transfers. What are they? How do they work? | Preservation and commentaries on Greek moral and natural philosophy, House of Wisdom in Abbasid Bagdad, Scholarly and cultural transfers in Muslim and Christian Spain |
When was the House of Wisdom in Abbasid Bagdad thriving more? | House of Wisdom in Abbasid Bagdad thriving more in 800s |
What helped springboard the advances in Mathematics? | Advances in mathematics (Nasir al-Din al-Tusi), algebra; use of Arabic numerals |
Give an example of an advancement in literature that was made in the Islamic Culture? | Advances in literature ('A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah), also translations, commentaries on others’ works |
What medical advances were most prominent in the Islamic culture? | Advances in medicine, especially optics |
Who was Avicenna Ibn Sina? YEARS? | Was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, and the father of early modern medicine. Avicenna Ibn Sina d.1037 in Persia excelling in medicine |
Who was Averros Ibn Rushd? YEARS? | Averroes Ibn Rushd d.1198 in Spain/Morocco expert in law, philosophy, theology |
How was Greek moral and natural philosophy viewed? | Preservation and commentaries on Greek moral and natural philosophy, Aristotle on nature (causation, motion), philosophy (e.g., syllogism) |
Who was Ibn Khaldun? | He was an Arab scholar of Islam,[10] social scientist and historian[11] who has been described as the father of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.[n 1][ |
Where was Ibn Khaldun located and when? | 1300's in North Africa. |
Be ready to list some of these... | Scholarly and cultural transfers in Muslim and Christian Spain |