Muslim World Dbq Essay

It is true that the Western World owes its science to the Muslim World. Partly because of their strive to learn from others and opening their finding to everyone. If the Muslim World was not this open and inquisitiveness of others besides them self, we would all be in the Dark Ages and deprived of all history not recorded in our native tongue.

The Islamic Golden Age is century at which Muslim rulers established one of the largest empires in history. “Golden Age. The period 900-1200 A.D. represents the approximate apogee of Muslim science, which flourished in Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and Cordoba, among other cities. Significant progress was made in such areas as medicine, agronomy, botany, mathematics, chemistry, and optics. As Muslims vied with Chinese for intellectual and scientific leadership, Christian Europe lagged far behind both.” (source 1). The Muslims gained the Golden Age because the Prophet (Muhammad) created a religion that untied his people (Muslims) and into one group. That changed

the ways we solve problems and gave us the opportunity to learn from our ancestors.
Some early sources of Islamic Science dated back to the first phase of Abbasid rule.

“Recovering and preserving the learning of ancient civilizations of Mediterranean…. Greek learning had been lost to the peoples of western Europe. Thanks to Muslim…the priceless writings of the Greeks on …. (everything) was saved” (Source 2). Because of the Muslims curiosity to learn and preserve other cultures they saved what could have been lost forever. But they also perfected most of what the Greeks got wrong in the medical and mathematic department, but they wouldn’t have been able to perfect it without studying and questioning (why was this the way it is?). “The many Muslim accomplishments in these areas included major corrections to the algebraic and geometric theories of the ancient Greeks and great advances in the use of basic concepts of trigonometry.” (Source 3). So, what the world learned from Muslims was questioning things and finding better ways to get that answers we

need.
Another example of a science source from the Muslims was two discoveries in chemistry. “Of classifying all material substances into three categories: animal, vegetable, and mineral.” (Source 3). Also, “able to calculate the specific weight of 18 major minerals.” (Source 3). This scientific innovation helped researchers and geologist. The Muslims helped these people by giving them data to go by. How the Muslims found this out was by creation of objective experiment (scientific theories) and testing them out, also because of a Al-Razi who got curiosity.
What can explain the decline of science in the last few centuries are the motivation to keep going. People believe that everything that has been discovered had been discovered there is nothing else new. But the few who don’t believe that aren’t making a difference because they don’t have the tools or money to test their theories. Also, because we are to focus on everything else other a science; politics, war, poverty, famous people, murders, equality, etc. Just look at the news or document in the past centuries. Sure, we solved a few diseases, but when the world (UN) tries to solve something like cancer, we argue too much to find an answer.

That is why the Muslims are the ones who had a great Golden Age in science and math than any other countries, because they weren’t too proud to learn from others and respected their cultures. Then they took that knowledge and perfected it until they thought it was up to par for that time. Which isn’t happening today because countries today can’t communicate with each other anymore, even with the technology (phones) we have, we just don’t listen.