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Period of Muslim trade, peace, and prosperity enabled by religious trust networks.
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Islamic Golden Age
Period of Muslim trade, peace, and prosperity enabled by religious trust networks.
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The Islamic Golden Age rests on trust: Muslims can trade globally because swearing to Allah makes co-religionists credible partners.
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Many Jews, in Jiang's telling, converted to Islam because they believed Muhammad fulfilled prophecy by returning Jews to Jerusalem, building what they understood as the third temple, and ushering in the Islamic Golden Age.
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The lecture's core problem is the divergence between Europe's dark age and Islam's golden age, followed by the later reversal in which Christian Europe overtakes the Muslim world.
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The Islamic Golden Age is, in Jiang's formulation, the proto-modernity of human history.
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"...more powerful. Now, the Arabs will establish something called the Islamic Golden Age, and this marks a time of tremendous peace and prosperity for..."
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"...of peace, prosperity, truth, justice. Today we call it the Islamic Golden Age. So for many Jews, the prophecy had been fulfilled. And that's..."
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"...some questions that we will look at today about the Islamic Golden Age. The first major question is, while Europe was in its dark..."
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"...movements in future classes. But please remember that it's the Islamic Golden Age which will inspire the Europeans to do all three of these..."
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"All right. That is my argument to you. Any questions? Anything you are unclear about? Was this clear? Okay. Sure."
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"...Over here is Baghdad. Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic Golden Age, the Islamic Caliphate. Okay? Historical city. Over here is Damascus. One..."
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"...Well, the answer is no. So when we did the Islamic Golden Age, what I said, and I still believe today, is the Islamic..."
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"...incendiaries to blow things up, okay? But because of the Islamic Golden Age and because of Genghis Khan's conquest, globalization came into being, and..."
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"...so some basic history. Remember that when we discussed the Islamic Golden Age, the Islamic Empire is trying to connect the world in globalized..."
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"...was accepted true for over a thousand years. Okay? The Islamic golden age relied heavily on Ptolemy's understanding of the cosmos. But the first..."
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"...a lot of� of the culture and politics of the Islamic Golden Age. Then there was the fact that in Italy, you had many..."
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"...of the Muslim world. And as we know from the Islamic Golden Age lecture, the Muslim world right now is very, very wealthy. Jews,..."
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