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...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2005
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/33581/1/DZUL383.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/33581/ |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | 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. |
|---|