Science in Islam, Part 1: Mu'tazila free will
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BAKU - With about 1.6 billion adherents, Islam is the second largest religion on Earth. Yet, its followers represent less than one percent of the world’s scientists. Only a handful of people from Muslim-majority countries have won Nobel Prizes in science.
However, up until the Mongol siege of Baghdad in 1258, Islamic science was the most advanced in the world. In comparison with the past, the modern disparity is staggering. Thus, to understand the present-day lack of scientific accomplishments, we must explore the past. In this first instalment of a new series, we will go over the rise and decline of Islamic attitudes towards science.
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There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
~Ali ibn Abi-Talib
Are we just going to ignore the fact, that dudes cup is empty at 3:25
@@aryeahzenter6779
Is that an important part????
@@SuleimanTheMagnificent71618 its funny
It's true that he stoned to death people and burn them???
@@ماهر-ل1ط burn? i am a muslim yet never heard anyone burning anyone in islam, no he never stoned anyone, nor did anyone did as nobody committed adultry in early islamic world, but later on , it became necessary for those indulged in adultry. either you punish people of this great crime by stoning, or allowing this crime openly, becoming a key factor in destruction of a state and its people, cut away those evils that risk the deaths and ruins of the rest people
Quran in its first verse says: "Read! Read in the name of Allah". Then, Hadith says "It is the religious duty of all Muslims to pursue the knowledge". When I look at the things happening in this region, I just can't stop my tears dropping from my eyes. This video also made me feel the same pain :( We must re-emerge
Then morons came and forbidden knowledge (non related to religion) and caused the Muslim world to decline....
It really saddens me to see this and cant help but to hate these so called "religious" folk who did it
@@DarkHill43 I'm pretty sure it was because they wouldnt get forbidden knowledge that caused the fall of religion
@@lovelyhomeboy2782 I disagree with your comment, its the authority who liked the idea. They want to control the masses by not allowing them to say anything against the authority, if you pay attention to what was going on during that period you would see that alot of revolts were happening so in order to calm the people the khalif adopted their religion's views. You see they claimed that everything that was happening its due 'god's plan" so people would calm down and accept it as it is, which it was the opposite of what Mu'utazilla believed. Also these morons always existed sadly and they dont even realize that they are doing the exact opposite of what Islam wanted them to do and dont forget that people are corrupted by nature, they will always find a way to fuck things up to suit their benefit and it saddens me that these "scholars" are reason for everything that went wrong l. At least that's my opinion so feel free to disagree.
Edit: Nvm I think they know exactly what they were doing...
First verse *to be revealed*
Muslims brought the entirety of humanity forward in antiquity, and that progress spurred the west to learn the languages of Islam and translate those works into western languages so that those western scientists could continue the progress that was made, even as Muslims were forsaking those same works in the face of the impacts caused by the Mongol invasions. I sincerely hope that Islam undergoes a second awakening, and that Islam finds it's way. A turn toward the sciences again by the Muslim world as a whole, would be a great boon for all of humanity. Those who bastardize the teachings of Islam in the name of their own fanatical beliefs have done enough to hold their brothers and sisters back from the progress they spurred on in antiquity, it is time to forsake those teachings and look to the golden age for guidance. I could say the same about many other fanatical groups, but Islamists stand out especially, since alongside Evangelical Christians, they've become one of the biggest catalysts for chaos in the modern world. I hope all these groups find their way, and wish no ill will upon them beyond what they bring upon themselves from the harm they inflict on others
Holy shit, this serie is going to be great! Thanks alot Shirvan! :)
drom techmarine basically😂😂
Madrassas have gone down hill. Places of learning are now places of memorization.
Madrasa is just the Arabic word for school. How ignorant can people be
@SaffronChad6969 Yes. But also there's the problem that the Quran is always required to be read in Arabic. The overwhelming majority of Muslims worldwide aren't Arabs. So when we see kids in madrassas rocking back and forth 'reading' the Quran, it's embarrassing.
You're right
@SaffronChad6969 that’s like every school in the world
@@philmitchell91 yes the Quran is in Arabic and will always be in Arabic alhamdulillah 🤷🏾♂️. Go cry to the liberal secular West then
Al kindi, Ibn Hazm, Al Farabi, Ar Razi,Avicena, Algazel, Ibn Al Arabi, Al Biruni, Ibn Battuta, Yallal Addin Rumi, Ibn bayya, Ibn Tuffail, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Jaldun...
Great philosophers, scientists, doctors and poets.
mohamed houari most of them werent even muslim
The Oblivion Lord
Can you tell when da fak you get that???
They live in al andalus and they arab names...
😑😑😑
White people is so fan lol
@@mohamedred5746 may be because most of them are mutazillah, ask your Imam, mutazillah never consider as muslim by sunni and shiah
@@jantoanggoro972
Yeah sure...
Thats why The abbasids Caliph (Harun Al rashid) Created a City of Knowledge And Science (Baghdad)
Pff you guys you are to pathetic 🤣
@@mohamedred5746 Most of them were persian not some andalusian. But you are right, their philosophy is very muslim influenced. They were muslim.
Make Islamic world great again.
Unfortunately its today's picture is very sad.
Humanity needs a progresive and creative Islam.
Very nice video...
You mean make arabic world and persian World great again
@@eliyonmilo9297 no 100% belong to arabs ... only serbia 90% from them not belong to serbia like kosovo 😂
@@eliyonmilo9297 I don't carec you're from one of Yugoslavian republics... same shit
@@eliyonmilo9297 from hell
Islamic world need Mu'tazila revolution. Fvck those radicals, extremists.
Shame on Muslims of present who follow mindless moulanas but don't even know about these philosophers and rational School of thought.😟
I'm with you on that too.
Same , i am a Muslim and I still agree with you
This is a video I didn't know I wanted until I saw it. Excellent work, looking forward to the next installment.
Thank you Shirvan for doing what you do the best, exploring sensitive topics, although youtube fails to incentivize it.
Masyallah, very well written script. Thanks for the knowledge
very informative. keep up the good work.
Cynical Toucan yes it was one of the best videos on Islam.
100 made-up, and like the libtard press, he never tells the truth. Islam only stole the knowledge they had -just like their prophet who stole the teaching of the Jews and the Gnostics and then perverted it all because he was too illiterate to get the story right. He also mixed in his sex addiction and love of murder and rape of little girls.
Ima SingusChickenus hmm, well if what you say is true, that is Jews and Christians had all the knowledge then they should have thrived not people who came from a desert. instead they were struggling to escape the hole of the dark ages. what your saying is just factually not correct. Yes, Muslims took knowledge like the zero from India but they worked on it and improved it in addition to preserving Greek and roman texts. Muslims also discovered things that no one knew about. it was a Muslim scientist who discovered reflective, refractive rays. it was ibn sina who wrote the cannon of medicine and many other things were discovered by muslims. What your saying is factually incorrect and you probably said this because you just watched Sargon of akkad or Steven crowder.
+Ima SingusChickenus translate=stole wut? You do realize that European resonance is also "stolen" knowledge, right?
They stole it all from the Western Greeks.
I am curious, where are the numerous Islamic Polymaths from Al-Andalus? I mean an Andalusian Polymath by the name of Ziryab developed the first scented/flavored toothpaste. It was apparently both Functional and Tasted good.
Xanadu-King I'm actually hoping to try and educate more iberians on our Andalusian heritage. I appreciate you speaking about it more! 😁
groundbreaking...
The mutazzalis didn’t care about scripture they cared about truth.
@Rational Islam lmao telling me to get educated but you believe in some bullshit fairy tales about Adam and Eve and an Angel talking to a dood in a cave, you can’t step to me you will get slept chump
Science in the Islamic Golden Age was wonderful, the advances in math and astronomy in particular are invaluable. That said I do think it is important to realize the anti-intellectual and anti-science bent that Islam began to take from the end of the Islamic Golden Age onward. This conservative and backwards Islam does not have to be the form that the religion takes but conservative Islam is anti intellectual and the ideas of Al Ghazali only poisoned the well. While I think conservative Islam can be especially anti-intellectual we shouldn't forget the problems that forms of conservative Christianity deny evolution and the big bang. Religion, when not practiced with an open mind, clouds out intelligence and it was a reason for the dusk of the Islamic Golden Age.
404Dannyboy Islamic Golden Age muslims were very conservative. They were ruled by sharia and were proud of it. What you speak off is Wahhabism.
Dannyboy I agree about fundamentalist literal interpretation of sacred scripture deterring or regressing science. I think with time these literalist strains eventually accept material proof once they align it with a theological explanation. The Vatican now has its own astronomy observatory, having accepted heliocentrism and the Belgian priest Fr. Lemaitre coming up with the Big Bang theory. Eventually Protestant fundamentalist Creationism will soften to Intelligent Design and finally to an open-minded recognition of however science can explain the universe. Wahabbi Islam, likewise, just needs time.
Every Civilization on this earth gave something to humanity, and Islamic civilization as a whole gave a lot. but unfortunately declined for known reasons. thanks Shirvan I like your channel.
What is the known reasons?
The reasons are not unknown but that’s a long story
@@Gadanfer the encouraging of "don't think too much and just obey blindly" and underestimating the power of the human intelect
@@eunoia4200 human intellect is vast but untamed, it will turn to arrogance.
@@Gadanferknown reasons are as follows. the mass adoption of corrupt fabricated hadiths implemented as misinformation for political gain. the promotion that "innovation" is bad hence Muslims have barely invented anything because it's drilled into their mind anything new is bad. lack of critical thinking and sheep mentality. the imprisonment of scholars who speaks against all this in Saudi Arabia. Free Hasan Farhan Al Maliki
I love you Shirvan. You bring a refreshing, rational and unique perspective to every topic you discuss. Keep up the great work.
Excellent video, cant wait for part 2!
Don't scroll down
but those opinions mainly support the ideas of free trade and globalisation
I wish I read this before scrolling so... so... so far down.
Why not?
Ironically all of these achievements took place at the same time Europe suffered through their “Dark Age”.
I love how you combine such a stressful topic with emotional Azeri music. Just beautiful.
Background music from Azerbaijani national song: Sari Gelin
No this is Ya Banat Alexandria. Lebonese song. But everyone claim it from Turks to europeans like Uskunder et cetra
I really love your video essays! History is everything! and I love how you dispel modern events and attitudes in an historical context. Please keep them coming! Thank you!
Thanks a lot Shirvan, this is going to be useful to the world. Or at least to me as a genuinely curious person for sure. I am studying arabic culture currently, as a westerner, and I am shocked by the size and quality of what I'm encountering in this new study path. We need more information like this in the West, to create real bridges of understanding between our very different but equally important cultures.
MR XBlack what do you mean? Do you suggest some authors or themes in particular?
No, my friend, mutazilla weren't at all just islamically-adjusted greeks.
The only thing they took from the greeks is logic.
This was very informative. Looking forward to the next one.
Sounds like a great branch of Islam, Blessed Be.
I wish, we in India had a person like you who would make a history video on our Indian civilization.
Abbasid Caliphate sounds so sophisticated.
finally! you said you would do this a year or tow ago Shirvan! How many parts would it be?
Yeah, it took me a while. I had to read additional books to formulate this series (4 episodes).
CaspianReport And the result is a great episode and work as usual! I really find your work helpful to understanding what is happening around us (like global geopolitics for ex.) or why some things are the way they are (like islam for ex.). Keep it up!
So you wake up unlike the rest of the sheeple huh?
My profile pic is a photoshop between Kim jong un and Donald John Trump
Kim's full name is made up of 9 letters while Trump's name is made up of 15
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Do you know what has 3 sides?
that's right
7/11 was a part time job!
insert *illuminati theme trap remix* here
Sounds good, cant wait!
Great work!
This is quite good, and much needed considering the dearth of quality media in English on the subjects you cover in the film. Thank you for making and posting it! I will recommend it to my students.
Thank you, very important topic especially today.
Mu'tazila were absolutely right and modern Ibadism/Ibadi of Islam is the closer to true Islam.
There were a lot of Muslim scienctists in the USSR in Azerbaijanian and Central Asia, whats your opinion about that?
Russia Good A ot of??? Please provide stats and credible sources
the USSR a successful system ? ahahahahah... The communist apoligists never fail to amuse me ahahah
The USSR had the same GDP per capita like Japan or Italy you idiot
The Soviet Union was an atheist state as were nearly all the scientists. So, we can view Azerbaijan and the Central Asian countries as a control group.
Not true, you could believe what ever you wanted and go to church or mosque, as long as its not interfering with the public
Nice effort, btw as far as I know the Mutazilites weren’t encouraged by all muslim world. Many islamic scholars including the one among the 4 greatest scholars of islam “ imam Ahmed ibn Hambal” stood against their philosophy and ideology. They had to face oppression by abbasid government because abbasids proclaimed their ideology as Mutazilites had close ties with the khalifa and had higher ranks in the government.
Your videos are always informative, and appreciated.
Damn this was a really good video shirvan. Keep up the great work!.
very interesting playlist, keep it up!
As always ...producing amazing, informative documentaries. I'm grateful found this CaspianReport. What you do is highly rewarding with strong facts and high academic knowledges. Thank you. 👌👍
This was excellent! Really love all of your work!
This will be a great series. Keep up the good work CaspianReport!
this is awsome, love from Lahore. Goodd Job Shiwan
Awesome video! I learned some valuable stuff in this one. Keep this series going!
Greetings from Croatia !
I liked this one a lot, looking forward to the rest of the series.
Oh how this civilization has become backwards recently.
So much potential lost under fundamentalistic theology.
We know it's mainly because Europe doesn't want muslims to flourish
@@AhmedHassan-sp1mx Is that why it's socially unacceptable to talk about limiting immigration?
Is that why criticizing even the most fundamentalist of Islam warrants the tactical term islamophobic?
A teacher in France was beheaded for talking about the right to criticize any faith.
Since there was a lack of Muslim voices defending him, is it safe to say t hat Muslims don't want freedom of expression to remain?
@@AhmedHassan-sp1mx No civilization is conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. It is the fundamentalist anti-intellectual fault . Stop blaming other people for your own problem. Muslim has plenty time to recover . They just simply don’t want to cause their leader wanted to preserve the status quo for the sake of personal power
Awesome! Very eager to watch Part 2. Thank you for doing such a report.
I'm not into Islam or religion in general, but old time Sultans were badass
daeho2 Badass with thousands of sex slaves to get fucked. I doubt Saudi royal family posses that many sexual objects.
@@TheKestevon oh , the princes are banging hoes from every race
Thank you for the amazing videos my friend! Very appreciated, and I enjoyed how you integrated the music as well!
Awesome segment that many westernes know very little about. Good job!
Great work mate. This is such an interesting period.
I wish you'd get into all sorts of tariqas that pop up later and figures like Nesimi, formation of Alevism, Safavids and all sorts of other religious movements, aqides, theological schools...etc
the potentials of the middle east and of Islamic societies when not being destabilized and destroyed by American and european imperialism
I'd say that the Islamic world fell from its full grace before European and American intervention. The Ottoman empire caused stagnation as its theocratic bureaucracy caused stagnation, its power hungry and greedy sultans struggled to hold their empire together and spent their money on holding the empire together rather than developing. The only reason why the sick man didn't die earlier was German economic and military support.
of course.. there will always be some bull response to justify European innocence in history.
Was or was not the majority of the ottoman empire behind the times by the time it was destroyed? Any historian will tell you it was.
Great work! Shame about the RUclips monetization. You have my support on Patreon
can you do a video about Science in Hinduism?? My request ?
There is none. Lol
@@saadmalik5436 dam really
Hinduism and science cannot get along. Hindiusm is Materialistic Pegan faith.
@@saadmalik5436 really ? Then why were the Arab Muslim traders able to get all the scientific knowledge from India ? And spread to Europe .. even the number system you stay today was developed in India and spread to Europe with Arab traders .. there are lot more achievement .. do you want me to go on ?
@@hrishabhdivya they didn't lol. Thats what they teach in poor old india
This was an amazing and really informative video Shirvan. Bravo, simply bravo.
It's very worrying that a lot of muslims are becoming more conservative, look at Iran before the revolution, a lot of women didn't wear niqab or hijab and they had freedoms but now they have regressed, Wahhabism in general is not good imo, the saudis are funding Wahhabism schools in many places, I'm afraid the society where Muslim women not wearing a headscarf and tolerance of other groups is declining,
for example in Syria and Iraq christians, muslims, yazidis, Druze all live beside for over a thousand years and now radical ideology groups like isis, Al Qaeda even some rebel militias are radical in Syria, and now those minority groups are leaving like the assyrians in Iraq, so this is very worrying to me
someonesavetrumpfromthefoxonhishead- I know pre revolution Iran was corrupt and that the shah was a puppet of the west, but it was secular society with freedom,
and yes huge majority of people voted for it to become a Islamic republic, and you are right that many women want to wear it but now the choice of choosing to wear headscarf is gone and all women must wear it. What I'm getting at is the ultra religious is telling every Muslim what they can and cannot do and this is a regressive society
James Wilson- great point, the Arab spring was a major point in the Arab world where democracy was wanted, but now 5 years later is the Middle East more secular and less religiously conservative than before the Arab spring??
There has been a rise of religious groups wanting to expand sharia law, Maldives, parts of Indonesia, parts of Nigeria have implemented sharia law recently, and pew research poll show that a vast majority of muslims want Shia law,
Countries like Belgium and France have more isis fighters than countries like Morocco, so we have to figure out why radical ideology is high is among some muslims in western countries
Iran has increased education levels post revolution it hasn't declined. Iraq and Syria fought against ISIS and al-Qaeda who they believe are Saudi backed foreign invaders working for the CIA and Mossad.
How is a dress code dangerous in any way or another?!
does wahabism even exist
To think that some kid from Azerbaijan can come up with videos like this. Damn. Awesome work. It's my favorite channel alongside Stratfor and occasionally from Bremmer. Respect.
Great video, few know that it was the Abbasid, not the Umayyad or Rashidun who swung the Islamic Golden age into the height it achieved.
Good video. The sword play could have been better though LOL
There is no Islamic science or Christian science or Jewish science. There is just science. The moment you mix religion with science, science ceases to exist. Which is exactly what happened to once great scientific cultures of Persia, India, Arabic and Rome/Europe (prior the Renaissance)
tho i understand your premise, this video isn't about science but the history of science, wherein defining science from its place of origin does make sense.
science is not history of science
history always involved politics and religions
He clearly stated that only 1% of the Nobel laureates were Muslim. The point made in the video is not origin of the scholars but their religion.
If you have paid any attention to western science you would understand christianity played a big role. I am an atheist but you cannot stop studying religions just because they are stupid, they tell us something about us and how we have dealt with uncertainty
1.All of them were muslim except muhmmed ibn zakriyya and al muqaffa who describeds as heretics.
2.Belonging to a specific ethnicity does not make you smart.
3.Burying daughters alive, inheriting your wife's etc pre islamic arabia were very civilized.(Don't bring up the nabateans and the arab felix area I am talking about the hejaz)
Your channel really shines with the videos like these regarding Islamic history.
Last time I was this early, middleeast was peaceful.
Rationally Coherent Account of Islamic beliefs is Virtually IMPOSSIBLE
OMG!! how could you forget Ibn Sina (father of Bimaristan)....have u seen his book of surgery??? come on!!! Europeans (i think they were in dark ages and appendicitis was called as witchcraft) used to come and study at the universities of Baghdad and gained degrees in medicine and engineering. Ijazat attadris (license) gained from Madrassa (i dont rem exactly, something like that) was the first form of Docterates......Anyway Past is past, today all I have is handful of pityness. You know Wisdom has an expensive price to pay.
exactly, this is the problem...they were not competing for IQ! and who said IQ is must for scientific development....and you said WHITES.....woow....
Ibn Sina was the one of the greatest Persian scientists ever!
And Nikola Tesla was a grand ambassador of geeks and nerds ever lived.....am honoured O_O
Just saying we gotta thank the Persian for leading the way fro modern day medicine, and islam can thank the Persians for leading them toward the golden age!
@@OccupyMars2035 there is no superiorjty over one another. It was Islam that is triumphant not Persian or Arabs.
Shirvan your analysis are rare jewels on this site. Keep up the good work.
So Islamic golden age was in spite of Islam, not because of it.
Valkenvr how so ?
Read in how it was almost solely us Indo-Iranians who brought progress in the Islamic golden age so it says something more about Iranians than something about Islam. It was also the most secular period in Islamic history..
Middle Eastern Atheist let me guess you are "Persian"? I don't have time for your revisionist history based on your geopolitical world view. how was Abbasid caliphate!, Umayyad, Fatimid and Andalusian caliphates not Islamic 😂😂 and no there many great Arab scholars, ibn haytham optics and the scientific method it self and al kindi and so further. And Islamic empire framework is what made those people flourish.
+Sabrina We were ruled by Muslims but overwhelming majority of scientists and intellectuals was of Indo-Iranian origin. The early progress at start of Islamic golden age was almost entirely done by Jews and Christians. There were high amounts of irreligious people in those intellectual circles (I wonder why?). Drinking was common. Fornication was common. Among intellectuals they were trying to fuse Islam with Greek thought (Innovation- one of the worst sins in Islam) to make Islam ration which is why among most clerics these scientists and intellectuals were labeled as heretics and apostates. Read about the role of Islam in Iranian society during this 'Islamic golden age', read the biographies. Read about how Iranians undone the arabisation of our culture.
Valkenvr I could not verify everything you are saying but I know that surgical instruments your moslim scientist invented were in use in old Rome. (600 years before islam) Just visit some Italian museums if still in doubt.
Most of the thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age were either Persian or Arab.
don't have to search long for ignorance, don't even know why I read comments anymore. bet they are american, let the hate begin
White American's / Europeans, Jews (not all jews are bad) and Hindus (Indians only) for sure...
+abdiG10ps Actually, by reading the comments, I think Indians are waayyy more Islamophobes than Americans....
abdiG10ps "bet they are American, let the hate begin" How ironically hypocritical
well you guys elected donald trump, you can't be that smart, just saying....................
BlackPhillip2018 well Islam is scary...
seriously, youtube needs more content creators like caspianreport. one of the most epic channels.
Gangez Khan messed up Islamic regions. Islam would have been different if he didn't exited.
This is very true. The mongol invasions and genocides were so devastating that they threw central Asia and the middle east centuries behind. The economies and the population took centuries to recover. The regions became weak and vulnerable to the nomadic steep peoples and empires. It didn't help with the rise of the ottomans either.
If islam was progressive then the middle east would have attained the same success after the mongol empire collapsed, but it didnt.
Yeah, don't forget about what they did to imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal rahimahullahuta'ala
Shias believe in free will too and also in the importance of the intellect within religion, not just the Quran and hadith. That's why most of the scientific research in Muslim countries stems from Iran, a Shi'a country.
Thank you Shirvan for this video and special thank putting Sari Galin as a background music)
I feel like persians have always been more sophisticated than Arabs. Sooooo, thanks Abbasids?
It's conquer or be conquered.
Biji Mustard Gas 1988 you bring shame to Arabs, speaking such language as an ignorant fool. People like you is why we suffer.
Persians were one of the most ancient advanced civilazations while arabs at the same time were tribes living in the desert.
Remember the words of our prophet that arabs are not superior to non-arabs and non-arabs are not superior to arabs..all men are equal in the sight of God.
too bad god doesn't exist.
I will personally endorse this series if given the chance..... Keep it up!!!!!!
Comment section gave me aids
Historically, no Islamic dynasty messed about with the Jews, as much as Catholic empires have, eg. Inquisition
You left out the greatest scientist of all time from Persia "avicinna" (ibn sina) the man who wrote the book on medicine and the other Persian scientist "zakaria razi" the inventor of alcohol??!!
I doubt he invented alcohol lmao
Given that alcohol is significantly older than Islam I don't think you can attribute that one to Islam.
+Yog Sothoth go back to history class and pay attention this time, the inventor of alcohol was a physician from Persia named "Zakeria Razi" he was the game changer in medicine and was one of the reasons why Persia wasn't affected by the plague in Europe
You're not addressing what I said in the slightest.
But that simply isn't true, it well known that civilisations far older than the birth of Islam produced alcohol. Greeks, Romans, Assyrians, ancient Egyptians. Alcohol is likely much older that civilisation itself.
Dear Shirvan,
Please try to exercise better restraint concerning your personal philosophical biases.
I got the feeling that you admire the mutazilah and you present their doctrine as a sort of a pinnacle of the islamic understanding.
Thanks for the great stuff :)
Mate, it wasn't an islamic empire. It was basically The Persian Empire 3.0 (after arab invasion). You will naturally inherit all that knowledge and culture then gradually build on it.
persian empire..., which speaks arabic and was in baghdad
n1 bro. it was an islamic empire, but honestly i salute the persians for starting the uprising that took down the ummayid caliphate.
Arabs aren't bright anyway.
So excited for part 2, awesome work!
Not trying to be a dick but i would rather watch something about geopolitcs, even if it involves Islam it doesn't matter but please stick to geopolitcs. But i gotta say the video is pretty good.
History affects geopolitics. I think it's worthwhile to discuss the history to better understand the politics.
Moises M geopolitics is just that : a game of power, it doesn't explain its history or why it happen at the first place.
Yeah kind of but History =/= geopolitcs if we were talking about separtist movements in Spain or how Japan and Germany conduct their foreign policy today yeah history is need to understand it better but i don't think studying about the past of islam which few (if none) muslim follow really adds to the conversation its liek studying Roman empire to understand England it doesn't work.
Geopolitics, History, and International Relations usually go hand in hand
Well sadly Islam is a topic that is very involved in politics today. And it is important to have a better understanding of it and how it evolved to have a thoughtful discussion about it. Or else you might be easily deceived or manipulated.
why is this mostly focused on the Persians? the Muslims of the Sahel region (Africa) Osman empire contributed a lot to science at that time.
Islam is a backwards death cult which has nothing to do with science
Look up Freud Jewish background and immoral practices.
Martin did you even watch the video?
hungry for attention??
Martin Stu Mr your hatred is not needed here please leave!!respectfully!!
Looking forward to the rest of the series! Thanks!
Sooo informative. My mind was carried away to these different times and places! I wondered when you talked about how appreciated the Turks were by the Abassydes for their numerous qualities. These were times where different peoples were literally, different peoples. Not the same as you, they're different and possess this and that characteristics and man, I really felt it for a moment. Jumping right into part 2.
Fantastic topic !!! Many thanks Shirvan !
Excellent! You finally changed the background music! Keep it up CR!
I am repeatedly watching the same video. You made it so beautifully great lesson of history with perfect music and visuals.
Love your work man. Look forward to each new episode.
when geopolitics becomes the history channel
Was expecting to be salty watching this, but actually feel amazed. Wow. Just wow. I look at the middle East with a totally different light now, how these philosophers looked at Europe and India, and ofc other areas, China, Egypt etc., for knowledge, as well as their homes and each other. Man, that was just an amazing video.
That was awesome keep them coming Shirvan
From your previous videos on early conflicts within Islam I got the impression that old cultural boundaries did persist despite the Arab conquests, particularly between the historically Byzantine and Sassanid territories.
Islamic definition of Science is different than modern science which is based on Materialism.
Islam promotes spiritual science, as much as materialist. Prophet (pbuh) said, I am the city of Knowledge and Ali (AS)is the gate of that city. But prophet was not mathematician, physicist, or chemist, His Science was spiritual Science which encompasses all natural sciences.
Shirvan! Thank you for the vid!! Will share it!
Im Indonesian Muslim and tremendously like this video :D
Thanks Caspian Report!
would appreciate an in depth analysis of state sponsored scholarship and centres of learning in Timbuktu. great series, I'm looking forward to the other episodes.
Thank you for your great work
Fantastic video, looking forward to the rest.
very informative and impressive keep up the good work!