Golden age of learning
A PRINCE of the Umaiyad dynasty, Abd alRahman b Mwiyah b (Caliph) Hisham (756788), was forced to flee Damascus when the Abbasids took control of the Muslim world in 750. Abd alRahman fled to Iberia (modern Spain) and founded a new Umaiyad dynasty there. Later known as the "Falcon of Spain...
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| description | A PRINCE of the Umaiyad dynasty, Abd alRahman
b Mwiyah b (Caliph) Hisham (756788),
was forced to flee
Damascus when the Abbasids took control of the Muslim world in 750.
Abd alRahman
fled to Iberia (modern Spain) and founded a new Umaiyad dynasty there.
Later known as the "Falcon of Spain", Abd alRahman
was determined to show the world that his capital in
Cardoba, where running water and libraries were part of the familiar landscape, was comparable to Baghdad,
the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty.
During the Abbasid Dynasty (7501258),
works of Aristotle, Euclid, Galen, Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Ptolemy;
Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and other famous men were translated in Baghdad. |
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| spelling | usm-335812017-04-26T00:36:25Z http://eprints.usm.my/33581/ Golden age of learning Abd Razak, Dzulkifli L Education (General) A PRINCE of the Umaiyad dynasty, Abd alRahman b Mwiyah b (Caliph) Hisham (756788), was forced to flee Damascus when the Abbasids took control of the Muslim world in 750. Abd alRahman fled to Iberia (modern Spain) and founded a new Umaiyad dynasty there. Later known as the "Falcon of Spain", Abd alRahman was determined to show the world that his capital in Cardoba, where running water and libraries were part of the familiar landscape, was comparable to Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty. During the Abbasid Dynasty (7501258), works of Aristotle, Euclid, Galen, Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Ptolemy; Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and other famous men were translated in Baghdad. 2005-06-26 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/33581/1/DZUL383.pdf Abd Razak, Dzulkifli (2005) Golden age of learning. New Sunday Times. |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) Abd Razak, Dzulkifli Golden age of learning |
| title | Golden age of learning |
| title_full | Golden age of learning |
| title_fullStr | Golden age of learning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Golden age of learning |
| title_short | Golden age of learning |
| title_sort | golden age of learning |
| topic | L Education (General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/33581/ http://eprints.usm.my/33581/1/DZUL383.pdf |