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Who was really responsible for the Golden Age?
Golden Era Muslims were focused on 'Islamic Logic and Philosophy' heavily drawing thought from ancient Greek and Indian Philosophers. They believed that although the Koran was the word of God, it should be presented against logic and interpreted as such.
This was the prime thought of the ruling state at the time, the Abbasids. In the 8th century, Calif Haroun Al-Rashid started the mass translation movement in Basra. He made it a state objective to translate books from all over the world in the areas of logic, science, maths, philosophy and logic and other areas of knowledge.
This was the cause that led to the establishment of the House of Learning in Baghdad. The House of Learning was designed to be a wonderful and most intellectual place where people of all faith and cultures were able to freely and openly engage in debate and learning. It did not place restrictions on religion, as evidenced by the number of Chinese, Jews, Hindus and Christians resident.
The House of Wisdom
The convenience of having all the worlds knowledge in one language allowed the polymath to create and innovate and invent all the successes we hear about today from the Golden Age. It was considered the world first 'Wikipedia', where knowledge from many sources around the world were translated into Arabic.
Golden Era Muslims rejected the idea of consensus (Tiklit). This means they believed each person should directly derive their own faith from the Koran themselves, without inter-mediation, hence totally rejecting the idea of clergy or scholarship that modern Muslim originate their faith from.
Golden Era Islam rejected the idea of Tiklit. But Muslims today practise Tiklit.
Tiklit is when an average ordinary street Muslim or majority of Muslims cannot themselves extract knowledge from the Koran directly, they then rely on a scholar to formulate matters on faith and issues pertaining to life including rituals, basic belief, prayer, social life, law, political ideas, responsibilities and everything in-between.
Tiklit thought was never practised even though Ahmad ibn Hanbal proposed an opposition movement calling this learning religious heresy. Al-Ghazali, who was imprisoned, also proposed an opposition movement calling this religious heresy, with his religious decree 'Incoherence of Philosophers', which effectively called for banning the study of mathematics, the foundation of science.
Ibn Rushid (Averroes)
Al-Ghazali was refuted in 'The Incoherence of the Incoherence' by Averroes (Ibn Rushid) in Golden Era Andalusia. Golden Era thought continued in Andalusia and led to the European Enlightenment, after the destruction of the library.
In 1258, the Mongols entered the city, starting a full week of pillage and destruction. The books from libraries were thrown into the Tigris River in such quantities that the river ran black with the ink from the books. This was the end of the Golden Age.
The Siege of Baghdad
Wahhabism is the direct ideological descendent of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Traditional Islamic schools of thought, such as Sunni, also promote Tiklit thought and are the direct ideological descendant of anti-Golden Era Islam.
Modern Traditional Islamic Scholars
Since the fall of the library in 1258, there has been practically zero development in the Islamic world and great changes in ideas of what it means to be a Muslim.
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. Did they ver read a philosophy book?
