• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The Islamic Golden Age isn’t called that just because scientific advancement happened in the Middle East.

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      8 months ago

      It is just a label though. We could have easily called the British empire or the American the a Christian Golden Age, but we do not as religion has little to do with scientific advancement.

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        8 months ago

        The Islamic Golden Age was deeply intertwined with religion though. In this case considering it’s discovery location, mentioning the religion is highly relevant.

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          8 months ago

          Yet the same can be said about many cultures throughout time as religion was the government so I understand what you are saying, but religion is still not worth mentioning. It would be like saying the CPU was made by a Democratic nation and enjoyed by fascists, authoritarian governments etc etc.

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            8 months ago

            There are, genuinely, artifacts from the Western world where the religion and culture are also highly relevant to the discovery and attribution. Perhaps in the future, it will be highly relevant to identify the political attribution to an artifact. That’s certainly the case with civilizations that interacted with Rome.

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            8 months ago

            Islam and islamic research into astronomy is mainly motivated by religion. A large motivator of research during the golden age is islam