1. Golden Age of Islam
Abbasid Caliphate (750 – 1055)

2. Golden Age of Islam
Islam on education:
"Acquire knowledge, it enables its professor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our company in solitude and companion when friendless. It guides us to happiness, it sustains us in misery, it is an ornament amongst friends and an armor against enemies.” Mohammed

3. Golden Age of Islam Abbasids bring Islamic Empire to a golden age.
Characteristics of a Golden Age
- Stable Government
Strong Economy
Advances in Art and Architecture
Advances in Education
Advances in technology and science
Advances in literature and poetry

4. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Extensive trade led Muslims to new ways of doing business.
- set up banks
- began use of checks

5. Achievements of Islamic Empire
Medicine
- Avicenna wrote an encyclopedia, Canon of Medicine, on disease that outlined both symptoms and cures

6. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Muhammad al – Razi studied measles and smallpox
Measles Smallpox

7. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Architecture – Dome of the Rock built in Jerusalem

8. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Muslim philosophers tried to combine Greek ideas with religion
Averroes put all knowledge to test of reason
“Two truths cannot contradict one another.” ― Averroes

9. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Muslims translated and preserved Greek and Roman knowledge

10. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Muslims excelled at poetry and literature.
The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Arab tales.
Most famous example of Islamic Literature is the Quran

11. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Education
- al-Khwarizmi developed algebra
- Omar Khayyam made advances in astronomy and poetry

12. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Islamic artists used shapes and patterns because images of God or humans was forbidden

13. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Islamic Caligraphy

14. Achievements of Islamic Civilization
Islamic Society
- Slavery was permitted, but discouraged
- Slaves could convert to Islam and be set free
- People were granted social mobility
- All Muslims were considered equal