1. Medical Reference Books
¼ Aim: What were the achievements of the Islamic Golden Age?
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Medical Reference Books
When Europeans learned that Muslims had preserved important medical texts, they wanted to translate the texts into Latin. In the eleventh century, scholars traveled to libraries in places such as Toledo, Spain, where they began translating –but only after they learned to read Arabic. Through this process, European medical schools gained access to vital reference sources such as al-Razi’s Comprehensive Book and Ibn Sina’s The Canon of medicine. Ibn Sina’s five-volume encyclopedia guided doctors of Europe and Southwest Asia for six centuries. For nearly 500 years, al Qasim’s work, The Method, which contained original drawings of some 200 medical tools, was the foremost textbook on surgery in Europe.

2. ½ page comparing and contrasting Islam with Christianity and Judaism
Tonight’s HW
½ page comparing and contrasting Islam with Christianity and Judaism

4. The Golden Age of Muslim Civilization: The Abbasid Empire
Literature
Literature influenced by Indian, Persian, Greek, Jewish, Egyptian influences
Qu’ran considered to be the most important piece of Arabic literature
A Thousand and One Nights: collection of stories which includes Aladdin and his magic lamp.

5. The Golden Age of Muslim Civilization: The Abbasid Empire
Muslim Social Pyramid
Muslim Economy
Based on Trade
Being a merchant was an honor because Muhammad was a merchant.
Traders traded along the silk road with China and India

6. Science, Math, and Medicine
The Golden Age of Muslim Civilization: The Abbasid Empire
Algebra developed (Al-Jabr)
20X = 300
Astronomy: Observed Earth turning and measure its circumference
Set up hospitals
Doctors must pass tests
Wrote over 4000 prescriptions for disease treatment
Science, Math, and Medicine

7. The Golden Age of Muslim Civilization
Art and Architecture
Use beautiful writing and geometric patterns to decorate buildings and art
Adapt Byzantine domes and arches
Minarets: slender towers outside of mosques to call the faithful to prayer.

8. The Golden Age of Muslim Civilization
Art and Architecture
Inside the Blue Mosque