The Culture of Islam

1
The Culture of Islam

• Chapter 6, Section 4

2
Preservation of Knowledge

• Translated Greek philosophy
• Placed in a library called the House of Wisdom in
  Baghdad
• Paper making factories established in Baghdad by
  the end of the 8th century
• Libraries and booksellers soon followed
• The works of the philosphers preserved

3
Philosophy, Science, History

• Philosophy
• Ibn-Rushd
• Math Science
• Passed on the Arabic
• number system
• Algebra
• Earth round
• Astrolabe
• Medical Encyclopedia-Ibn Sina (quote pg 207)

4
Philosophy, Science, History

• Ibn-Kaldun
• Historian
• Muqaddimah (Introduction to History)
• Cyclic view of history

5
Literature

• Omar Khayyám
• Rubaiyat
• The 1001 Nights (The Arabian Nights)

6
Art Architecture

• Greatest art and architecture
• Mosques
• The Great Mosque of Samarra pg 209
• The Mosque of Córdoba pg 210
• Palaces
• Looked like fortresses
• Boiling oil
• Alhambra in Granada
• Arabesques
• No representation of Muhammad