The Medieval Islamicate World: Crash Course History of Science #7

[@msaley6033]

"Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave" ~Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

[@Golha2505]

oh man ,he didn't even mention ibn al haytham ,jabir ibn hayan ,al kinidi ,al-Tabari.. and its still awesome!

[@yas7689]

he probably will in the next episodes :D

[@navedrizv]

@Blue Gh Jabir bin Hayyan was great muslim scientist, your filthy mind would not fathem this truth. You are filled with hate and in denial.

[@ahmarsaeed6085]

Awesome? It freaking blew my mind!

[@billbir6113]

@@navedrizv My name is Jabir, so I did a bit of research and realized how lucky I am to be named after such an individual whom the west owes a tremendous amount due to his understanding of all the sciences we cherish today.

[@sameerhasan8101]

@How Would The Unwary Know Give me the source which states that Ibn al-Haytham was an atheist.

[@carschmn]

We were taught in my high school astronomy class how the Arabs saved astronomy. Since it is was the early 2000s in the USA, this blew some people’s minds.

[@zhess4096]

@Mando Man lol, "stole". How do you steal knowledge?

[@JAYZ999]

Mando Man If true, I don’t think you know how knowledge works. Otherwise science is now built on “stealing” from each other.

[@عثمان-و9س]

@Mando Man Stole knowledge? you're not very bright aren't you?

[@ChangedNames]

@Mando Man Knowledge is something that is given from one scientist to another, and improved by the next. If we stole, so did every other scientist. Because our advancement builds up from the experiments our ancestors. For once respect those who used their brain for the better ment of humanity, at least we didnt create bombs that would explode thousands of humans at a time.

[@abhiprakash74999]

@Mando Man bro by ur definition we all steal knowledge. None of us invented geology or quadratic equations or languages , yet we all learn it in school. By ur definition , we should let children figure out everything from hindu numeral and decimal systems to advanced calculus. Hawking stole from einstein who stole from Newton who stole from previous scholars. Lol . It's not stealing , it's transference of knowledge in increasing quantity.

[@sleepynidzyy]

The muslim ummah today (on the other hand): Sharing videos of a cat not stepping on Quran...Wow

[@Froggeh92]

Too real

[@mohdsaif5539]

😂😂😂

[@hamzahfrs6548]

Nidzara K and Zamzam water turning light bulbs on

[@lovelace5286]

This comment deserves a Pulitzer Prize

[@lovelace5286]

HmFRS M OMG my mum showed me that and I cried because the dude comes from the same ummah as the medieval robot inventor

[@whiteflagstoo]

You can't just drop "medieval robots" on me and say nothing about it!

[@qbslug]

thats because it is an exaggeration

[@syedusamamanzoor1838]

mechanical automation existed even in prophet king Solomon's era.

[@syedusamamanzoor1838]

having robots in medieval times should be no surprise

[@solaireastora5133]

THIS!!!! WE DEMAND ANSWERS!!!!

[@IgnisDomini97]

They were more like theme-park animatronics than modern-day useful robots, but still amazing.

[@Norimarisu]

I've watched this video 4 times because I feel the need to search most of the info here so I can know more cause it all sounds so interesting. I feel like young me was robbed of this knowledge in my formal education.

[@duraath]

it's not called robbed from you, if you live in the western it is called "not telling"

[@walkingdead7115]

Yes sadly the media lies a lot. Read about jabar bin hayan. Hes one of the most influential figures in chemistry. He is considered the father of chemistry along with later EUROPEAN scientists. But he laid basis for later chemists. Jabar bin hayan was a Persian polymath.a practicing shia Muslim and student of imam jafar( jafar was a theologian polymath and the son of the Prophet Muhammad,his 6th generation)

[@Aazammm]

Most of the history we refer is from Christians and that's why you won't see praise about Islamic world in it

[@gravefx9437]

WALKING DEAD no they don’t teach us the the islamic history because they want us to stay ignorant and think that islam is a barbarian religion and that we they had no influence on our current world..

[@hdakahidef]

I'm glad to see positive comments, gives me hope that intelligence is still somewhat sought

[@engineered.mechanized]

Excellent, I am a Muslim and an Engineer and about to start my Master's degree in Mechatronics this september 2020. Continuing their legacy in faith and in science.

[@reembn868]

As a Muslim this makes me both proud and kinda sad because how things are right now

[@eclypso8524]

Same here 2

[@nazimjijel5387]

@Afra The Fox Girl same 3

[@mohamednsiri7713]

Same here 4

[@yuzan3607]

Let's try to live our lives (as much as we can) with the morals and philosophies of our wise ancestors. Let's ignore the hatered and prejudice of the west, the ignorance, corruption and backwardness of our nations. Let's not forget our scientists and philosophers whom history has forgotten, let's study, teach and add on to their wisdom. If we can't change our nations we can start from ourselves.

[@xlynx9]

That's wise @@yuzan3607. No matter your circumstance, you can have pride just from knowing you're thinking in a way which leads to human flourishing. Pride => economy => politics => all. Remember it's one world of which you are a part.

[@husseinbulehlib6607]

"When Arabic was the language of science" Neil Degrass Tyson

[@nedimbajgoric2909]

The abbassid caliphate had the highest life expectancy in the world before the industrial revolution

[@RazorEdge2006]

@Mateo Valenzuela Average life expectancy of pre-industrial civilizations: Ancient Greece - 25-28 Ancient Rome - 25 Medieval Islamic World - 35+ (source: Lawrence Conrad, The Western Medical Tradition) Pre-Columbian America - 25-30 Late Medieval England - 30 As you can see, the Medieval Islamic World had the highest average life expectancy among pre-industrial civilizations.

[@navedrizv]

.. because of the blood and money they sucked out of their people.

[@isorokudono]

@@RazorEdge2006 Medieval England is a bad example. There were two mini ice ages.

[@RazorEdge2006]

@@isorokudono That was the life expectancy in Medieval England even before the mini-ice age.

[@RazorEdge2006]

@@navedrizv People lived longer in the medieval Islamic world because they had the highest living standards, most advanced medicine, most sophisticated hospitals and best healthcare available in the pre-modern era.

[@احمدمحمد-ص4ز3ي]

Their dark age was our golden age

[@TheLegendSpeaker]

It was arguably the golden age of human civilization. There hasn't been a single time in human history where knowledge was prioritized to a scale similar to how it was during the Golden age of Islam. Countries are divided today more than ever, and almost no country puts this much emphasis on knowledge. Today the world is all about prioritizing money, power, and military.

[@abhiprakash74999]

And our golden age is ur dark one . Sadly . I hope we can all , everyone in the world , enjoy the golden age in the future

[@احمدمحمد-ص4ز3ي]

@@abhiprakash74999 sure but ur government would let us enjoing the golden age togther now and in the future????????????

[@mattmacaulay2900]

Anyone who denies the greatness of the early Islamic caliphates is clearly mistaken.

[@pienmash7495]

Stolen knowledge, rewritten history. Come on, it's not that hard!

[@nekotamo5154]

Kill those who deny medieval islamic science! Science akbar! :P

[@herodotus945]

That greatness would not happen without Christian Nestorians who translated Greek book to Arabic.

[@mtraa.942]

Pien Mash Hey look I'm atheist ! But really you can't deny that my ancestors had a great civilization I don't care about islam ! Because most of these scientists were excited on charge of Heresy Islam is just like any abrahamic savage religion ! And i know that the arabs translated some of the greek , Egyptian books But they also developed that science ! Most of the basic of the modern science was made by the arabs ! And there's countless inventions they made such as the camera , the clock ,many of the medical tools , the basic of mathematics , algebra , the arabic numerals and alot more Just please stop trying to Monopolize science on Europeans only! Or even try to strip us from our history ! Because this is really disgusting and again this got nothing to do with islam ! It's like saying Christianity what made the US great (even though there's alot of religious diversity there).

[@spacetoon6ok]

You are right, childish individuals will always deal with absolutes, science is a continuous process with each era contributing a certain amount of knowledge and progress, their is no ideal society and will never be, Iron Age Hellenistic era, Roman Empire, islamicate world, Eastern and southeastern Asian nations, post medieval western world etc, non of them was a perfect utopia but all had contributed to the progress of the mankind, their is no good and evil such absolute vague terms are in children stories only.

[@asimabdullah6188]

And then came the Mongols

[@dchuhay]

Eventually, yes. However, first came the fundamentalists.

[@Seaoflife.]

Adnan Bosnjak *dramatic mongol action scene from an old movie start playing*

[@FarhatC28]

They're the exception 😉

[@kinghassan3122]

And then they converted to islam and became the ottoman empire

[@pleasesubscribe7659]

dchuhay don't bring lies here

[@112steinway]

So much of this was undone when the Mongols came to town. They burned the library at Baghdad to the ground and thew so many books in the river that it was said the water turned black.

[@bilodolo11]

oh my, where did you hear this?

[@Zoogor95]

@@bilodolo11 it's true

[@trentbishop5920]

When I hear the sacking of Baghdad (1250s) I laughed because I loved the mongols

[@hdakahidef]

Yes this is true, well documented as well, over a million Muslims were slaughtered and when genghis came to the Muslims he told them that because of there failure to fulfill ther duties to God, is the reason why he was able to rule over them. What a statement..that I agree with and I'm a Muslim

[@strengthhonour8594]

@@hdakahidef Why do they bring God into this?

[@deathdoor]

And then the Mongols went and OBLITERATED Baghdad from existence.The greatest tragedy of the story of all humanity.

[@sebuktegin4403]

Panino Manino How about when Muslim Turks burnt the Library at Nalanda in India and razed the 2000 year old university to the ground, while killing all the teachers and the Brahmins on the spot.

[@azmeeimtihan586]

Nalanda library still existed that time? :3

[@Damo2690]

L I B A R A Y O F A L E X A N D R I A

[@jsaba3521]

What abut it?

[@neneklampir6664]

Cough *The Library of Alexanderia* Cough *It could make our Civilization rum faster* Cough

[@malakhassan6626]

Love how unbiased and neutral crash course video are

[@romessaa.1853]

Wow no hate comments iam impressed❤️

[@xQixAni]

R&R talks not yet

[@ya3463]

Sorry

[@hamzahfrs6548]

R&R talks they run away when they see the truth as if you threw a grenade on them

[@basilb2007]

They don't like facts. They like fake news.

[@shaikhaalmeer2364]

just wait for it

[@alvirarahman2690]

We fell behind, it’s true. In the year 1258AD, Hülagu Khan with his huge Mongol Army completely razed Baghdad to the ground and set more than 36 of these priceless libraries on fire 😭😭😭 Millions of scriptures were lost. Baghdad was the knowledge hub of the Muslims ❤️ it took centuries for Muslims to bounce back from that loss. Another thing I had wished this video included was that the VERY FIRST DEGREE GIVING UNIVERSITY was established by a Muslim woman. She paved the way for knowledge that is still in norm today. Ever wondered why the Graduation ceremony academic regalia looks like what a Muslim woman wears A.K.A Burqa? Well now you know 😊

[@TheLegendSpeaker]

It was a knowledge hub of the world!

[@alvirarahman2690]

Jayant Rawat that’s not only a misinformation but it was also refuted by Joseph B Lumbard. The movement had no impact on science or academics. It’s literally on the Wikipedia. Go check before commenting

[@cometmoon4485]

Ramadan Mubarak everyone! Have a nice month.

[@themanfromtheeast2048]

Ramadan Mbarak to you 2 brother\sister

[@oof-rr5nf]

Cometmoon448 Same to you!

[@99unclesam17]

Arunima Tiwari Salam

[@99unclesam17]

Donato Marcello Radice Somebody watched a little toooo much Fox News.

[@ahmedzerrouk9575]

Donato Marcello Radice can you give as the statistics and comparisons

[@muazthunder]

medieval times -al khawirzmi,al biruni,ibn abbas etc 2018 -Dj Khaled

[@eddielookingbeautifulbravo8]

another one

[@saeedvazirian]

Those were Persians, lmao!

[@blackdedo93]

​@@saeedvazirian you clearly missed the point of the video, and even more clearly you didnt read @Puseman comment. maybe you should watch the video again!! ohh maybe i should tell you since you probably will not understand this. NO BODY MENTIONED ARABS HERE ITS "ISLAMIC", PERSIANS WERE MUSLIMS FYI Thanks :)

[@zsway4632]

@@blackdedo93 Don't use Dj Khaled , he is a very bad influence to muslims.

[@shapurthegreat8314]

blackdedo93 Persians weren't mulsims. Zoroastrian or shia. Both of them nothing to do with arabs and their islam. Isolated. Even of you see other muslims don't consider iran as muslims because in reality they aren't muslim.

[@yj9032]

The Islamic world was modern then and medieval now

[@Golha2505]

lol true

[@Monyato]

Just another Bird ignorance, People that want power instead of knowledge, just reading one part of a religious text that coincidentally has violence in it and take it out of context and the revolve your whole life around it... people not teaching their children.

[@amerlad]

@Just another Bird it's really sad, i live in the arab world, and i see all the ignorance and misinformation, it's honestly sickening, but there's still hope, hope in the new generation, the educated bunch.

[@1989Nihil]

@Just another Bird The discovery of new trade routes, as well as finding the americas largly contributed to the down-fall of the Islamic Golden Age. You see, there is a correlation between trade and willingness to exchange not only goods, but also knowledge. There is a reason why a country's port-cities, or trade centres in general are more liberal in their world-view then the rest of the country. Back to the topic: The arabic-islamic world basically held monopol to the access of goods from the rest of Asia, such as spices, frankincense ect. that european kingdoms needed/wanted. All that stuff needed to take the Silk Road to get to the purchaser, which lead through the arab-islamic realms. However, once it was discovered by western powers (thanks to maps created by making use of the work of arabic-islamic schoolars), that you could get direct access to spices and stuff from Sri Lanka, India ect. by taking the sea-route and thus by-passing the large trade centres of the arab-islamic world, trade, and subsequently the exchange of knowledge began to decline rapidly. Even more so when the americas were discovered, and then exploited for their resources. So, with all the trade as good as gone (or rather reduced to an insignificant minimum, less then what was needed to sustain the endeavors of open minded Caliphs) from the arabic-islamic world also came political instability, which gave ample oppertunities for more radical and orthodox factions of the islamic world to grab for power themselves, and lastingly transform the face of the arab-islamic world, some of which we can still see today. But not all of that was bad either, though. Iraq for example, before the baseless US-invasion in '03, had one of the wolrd's best education systems, as well as a functioning health-care system the USA could only hope to have, all of which could be traced back to the Islamic Golden Age. Hospitals and health-care in general also flurished greatley during the Arab-Islamic Golden Age, which would have made Hippocrates of Kos and Galenos shed happy tears.

[@1989Nihil]

@Blue Gh That only happened once the Golden Age was over, and political instability had settled in, which in turn was fueled by the rapid decline of trade through the Silk Road. I suggest you go read Peter Frankopan's Book _The Silk Road_ .

[@workguy2275]

I remember watching Neil Degrass Tyson in a lecture years ago mention that there was a period of time when education fluorished in after the prophet died. But hearing about it in detail is fascinating. These guys were smart!

[@wb8695]

"after the prophet died" implies he was against it... on the contrary, his teachings planted the seeds for it.

[@workguy2275]

Wasn't implying anything bro, just saying back what I heard.

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

He was wrong in so many ways.

[@herodotus945]

Didnt Muhammed claimed that sperm is located in the back and that the Earth is flat like a rug ?

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

+Herodotus 94 no.

[@MuniraHoosain]

Finalllyyyyy!!! A history of science that acknowledges Muslim contributions 🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏

[@Nightspyz1]

Munira Hoosain and what do they contribute now?

[@naciremasti]

what do christians contribute? pillage, plinder?

[@thehh5118]

Munira Hoosain agreed.

[@thehh5118]

Nightspyz1 lol like having professions in various different fields of work, like every other person? This video is talking about historical contributions.

[@naciremasti]

probably because shes not a bigot.

[@huzaifafaheem6382]

Damn, no ignorant people in the comments, guess if u want to stay ignorant u would never watch this channel!

[@Kaisarion1998]

so far i only found one, who calls ramadan a bloody month for some reason

[@amigaamigo5307]

Who’s the biggest fool the fool or the fool who follows a fool.

[@n-carter4468]

@@amigaamigo5307 you

[@Monyato]

jim janssen it... is a month...

[@anbynth2911]

Slapfacegamer i think they understood it as a month where blood is shed, which is not true.

[@awaf12]

As a Mesopotamian arab.. I love you.. I myself love science and was always an ambitious mathematician but wars made my main attention is securing my peaceful life and I still suffering from trauma and depression but I will be an inventor like my ancestors and I hate when people talk bad about my culture not knowing that there whole life is based on it .. I appreciate your existence hank

[@camdenjones1246]

Amazing (and admittedly indescribably frustrating) how an engineering genius like Al-Jazari has gone completely untaught throughout all my years of schooling

[@coalyboi7939]

I can't comprehend how some people can be so smart

[@deeb3272]

Research (:

[@truehope2344]

I just can't help but notice how adorable Hank is whenever he butchers the pronounciation of an arabic word, just too cute ^^

[@rizzzv]

Bag-dad. Gold stuff xD

[@protoeuro]

To be honest, his pronunciation of Mu3tazilism impressed me

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Islamic natural philosophy, also known as physics. Love to learn more. Thanks, Hank

[@Yusuf-gh4xg]

Donato Marcello Radice Just stop! Your statement have no source's, It's quite sad really. I reccomend Citing your sources before stating them.

[@404Dannyboy]

Then cite your sources for that not being the case. Incidentally in regards to actual physics he is mostly correct. The Islamic world made amazing advances in medicine, math, and astronomy... but not so much in physics. It should also be noted that most of the knowledge Islam had OVER the West during the middle ages was a result of them preserving Greek and Roman sources that the West had lost.

[@marathonman1205]

Roman sources ? Haha the Romans were not interested at all in sciences. They were great soldiers and thieves.

[@theadel8591]

404Dannyboy you didn’t tell us a new thing my friend, every generation of science build its knowledge on the previous generations. Nothing comes from nothing.

[@beastvader]

Jarlaxle Daerthe Did you even watch the beginning of the video? Or do you simply enjoy living in ignorance?

[@amiratlanta]

FINALLY! The contributions of Islamic scholars to the sciences and mathematics is invaluable. Thanks for doing this video in particular.

[@Explore_Pakistan]

scientific and philosophical revolutions in the West like industrial revolution and Renaissance could never happen if it was not for the work done by the great great Muslim scientists of the middle ages. So please make a video which is not Biased..

[@khalilaidani8005]

I live in an Arab-Muslim country and this is my official Arabic literature program. This video is very helpful. Thank you Crash Course, your blessings have reached another part of the world.

[@CoffeewithCue]

I love this topic id love to see more islamic videos. I am a history major trying to find a middle eastern studies grad school in the US and they are fairly rare. Its a shame they dont teach any of this stuff in the west enough, so its almost like you are re-learning history since this subject is rarely taught indepth outside of a designated college classroom. the near east is so rich in culture. I enjoyed watching this one i learned something new.

[@fromthe4621]

Queonnah-latrice Coleman maybe some college in Turkey has that knowledge u seek

[@CoffeewithCue]

iYoteOn aPineapple i wanted to stay in the US for schooling for now. I dont think im ready to leave my country for reaseach just yet but you are totally right they have amazing schools in turkey, ive seen great ones in england, egypt the list goes on. They have a few in the US but they are at top tier ivy leauge schools either that or they are expensive to go to lol but when i look overseas i see much more opportunites to study in the area.

[@soukainatips3204]

Queonnah-latrice Coleman it's a shame they don't want to teach people about how muslims contributes to civilization, the first university in the world was build in Fes Morocco. I hope you found a good school here in the US

[@Tsukiko.97]

Though it is best to get your information from primary source may I recommended the KZbin Channel *Caspian Report*. He has a series that goes into a brief overview of the history of Islam and the role of Islam in science.

[@CoffeewithCue]

Soukaina Bensghir it really is isnt. But you know the west. We like to depict the middle east like its a wasteland, africa like everybody has no shoes and is absolute poor. If it has no immedaite relations to european affairs than it must be not worth anything they feel. smh!!! I have found a few programs but i need to get learning theres so much achievement to cover!!! Lol

[@yasserel911]

You never regret subscribing to this channel.

[@jaelsmith9940]

Yasser EL-Hadraoui +

[@owencutler229]

+

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

M SBC Like when?

[@gabethedizzle]

Unless you value facts.

[@yasserel911]

Lmao

[@randomness2622]

in the immortal words of a great islamic philiosopher, by the name of DJ Khaled.. "We da best"

[@elfarlaur]

Well he refuses to go down on women so maybe he's not all that great

[@yourfavoritedrawer7680]

elfarlaur How do I delete someone elses comment?

[@joekennedy4093]

whoosh

[@fromthe4621]

random ness DJ Khaled is my religion

[@user-kl1on3nw7y]

random ness 😂😂😂true dat

[@washingtonirving9951]

Came here for the comments saying "Came here for the comments" or *sips tea, eats popcorn*

[@antivanti]

...stayed for the comments saying they came for the comments saying they came here for the comments or sips tea, eats popcorn

[@danieldossantos5868]

the comments are fairly peaceful unfortunately.

[@falnica]

We are learning how science prospered, but i feel that we should also learn how science dwindled and was forgotten, and why, because we obviously don't want that to happen again

[@saadshehadeh5579]

the mongols razed baghdad which set us back hundereds of years and then the europeans burned every single book in Al Andalus when they reqonquerd it.

[@khalidalali186]

Wrong. The Catholic monks revered any book they found written in Arabic, and led a great translation movement to Castilian and Latin in places like the university of Salamanca. Needless to say, that was in Spain alone, and even prior to the fall of Granada in 1492 by two centuries. Arabic books, were in demand all over Europe, from Thomas Aquinas in Italy, Albertus Magnus in Germany, and Siger of Brabant from what is modern day South Holland, and many many more. Furthermore, the sack of Baghdad in 1258 is pathetic excuse, as it wasn’t the Baghdad of the 9th century by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, it was still a huge metropolitan city, a very wealthy one too, but it lost its cosmopolitan essence centuries prior to the coming of Hulagu Khan. Oh, and the Abbasid Caliph ruled Baghdad and a few other towns and villages not far from it, making him the head of a city state, rather than what his ancestors from the 9th century ruled, a true empire spanning two continents. Stop repeating false information, and stop looking for simple answers. Do us all a favor, and read a few hundred books.

[@ZetaFuzzMachine]

@@khalidalali186 it is so nice to see people not just arguing to be right but to seek the truth! No matter what country, culture or religion you are. That insight and self-critic (self as in one's own cultural past) is what I'm all about. Also I just wanted to say that besides a slight xenophobia in my country (Spain) against Muslims, I'm proud to be studying astronomy, and wanted to thank all of these great scientists the Arab world brought us!!! Respect!!!

[@khalidalali186]

Of course! We all have to seek truth, and arguing about one’s heritage is futile, if one only focuses on something that occurred centuries ago, and one has nothing to do with that in anyway, especially by associating yourself to it, that’s not contribution. It stems from a sense of insecurity, because a tiny nation like spain a decade ago, was producing more patents than the whole Islamic World. My ancestors lived in Islamic Spain from 711-1518, they were Arab from Arabia, they mingled with the Visigothic Germans, Berbers, Slavs, and Roman Hispanics throughout those 807 years. There is xenophobia everywhere my friend, don’t be fooled, it’s just the Europeans that are made to feel bad about it, due to their high level of critical thinking, self-awareness, realizations, and self-criticism. I’m glad you are studying Astronomy, the heavens are filled with Arabic names due to these discoveries from long ago, but one is to find Greek, Roman, Hungarian, German, French, and English names too, as all these civilizations contributed to humanity on different stages of time. I wish you all the best! Greetings from a Cardiac Surgeon from Abu Dhabi 😋✌️🇦🇪🇪🇸 Oh, and we have like 15,000 spaniards here and in Dubai, or maybe more.

[@whootoo1117]

This is what the world needs. This is the most intensive positive vibe plus history without impartiality

[@TheR971]

Last time I was this early, the Islamic world was still looked up to by the western.

[@Sigzyl]

Roman Riesen Ooooh good one

[@Tsukiko.97]

recesspieces I am against religious fundamentalism but do understand that all abrahamic faiths lived relatively peacefully in the past. You can thanks the Sykes-Picot agreement which was commenced by western nations as catalyst in spawning the religious fundamentalism you see today.

[@sdushdiu]

LMAO! You obviously missed the history of Islamic oppression in the Balkans under the Ottomans that lead to the Bosnian war.....

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

+sdushdiu What's wrong with conquest?

[@redkiller3129]

Because Bosnians and Ottomans caused WW1 too, amright?

[@mbmr4064]

Thank you for the video, I really liked it. I’m from the middle-east, Saudi Arabia.

[@emperorkaido8539]

oooo saudi arabia which is compiting with turkey on who will lead the arab world to destruction

[@Noververify]

Al Jazari: *builds a robot musical band* DJ Khaled: "Congratulations, you played yourself"

[@elaunamarie5113]

Thank you for your accurate and unbiased explanations. Your videos are both informative and entertaining. I'm a big fan!

[@samiai8905]

I'm so glad this history is being more out-spoken. It really is amazing. Please make a separate Crashcourse section for Islamic History! It would help so many out!

[@hadiyahkhan76]

I just love watching/hearing him mispronouncing the words and names. It is very entertaining.

[@ahmarsaeed6085]

A Robot Band in 1206??? I don't know what to say.

[@michaelemouse1]

Can we hear the "instrument that plays by itself"?

[@farishazmi3051]

Darude - sandstorm

[@yub2.045]

faris hazmi b r u h

[@TheKasimkage]

I was so happy to see this video. Finally, something positive with a Muslim face on it. And the unstoppable smile on my face that grew during the part with the astrolabes! It’s truly a shame that we don’t learn/hear more about this stuff more often.

[@DarkshadowXD63]

When the Europeans where in there dark ages the Middle East guided by Islam experienced a almost golden age of knowledge. Now it seems it has been flipped I wonder for how long. I have been waiting for this channel to speak about Islam and its role of continuing the study of knowledge in the past. Speaks volumes of how now some followers are extremist that seek to destroy the learning of ancient texts and sites.

[@BlockMechanics]

I'd imagine its because what happened in the Europe during the middle ages happened to the Middle East in the last few decades; the sudden growth of religious fundamentalism and rampant corruption within the ruling classes (both authority and in the clergy), leading to uneducated (especially in the actual texts of Islam) extremists whose only wearing the rotting skin of what they profess, making a mockery of the whole religion. And trust me, as a muslim this frustrates me in levels I can't even describe.

[@camiblack1]

It's more that the Muslim/Islamicate world were less divided being a relatively young empire/shared cultural grouping. The Carolingians had just barely consolidated Occitania (Southern France), Lombardia (most of Northern Italy, sans Venice), the low countries, and a big part of Germany (basically everything but what would have been East Germany). Plus all the problems that the ERE had with the Slavs, Turkish peoples, Persians, Magyars, Arabs, Armenians, as well as having quite a few weak emperors.

[@Tsukiko.97]

The medieval world was not in a dark ages because of there being no prosperity it was instead called so because literacy rates were low. But being illiterate does not mean that you are either unintelligent or uneducated.

[@3DArchery]

"When the Europeans where in there dark ages" - Really? I think that those who lived on the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) would disagree with you. In those "Dark Ages" you refer too, they built the Hagia Sophia.

[@camiblack1]

3D Archery unfortunately the time period they're talking about also included the Heraclian and Iusarian dynasties which saw the Empire reduced to an Anatolian rump state with a handful of places in Greece and Italy, only being brought out of it in the late-early and early-high Medieval petiod. Oh and Dark Ages isn't used as a time frame, the proper is late migration period (mostly overlaps with the early part of the early medieval fall to about 650 or so) early medieval (fall-1000 with the most part being post Charlemagne) high medieval (1000-around 1300), and late medieval (around 1300-about 1450).

[@Msferedrose]

Thank you John and Hank for what you do. Your videos are essential viewing for EVERYONE right now, to recognise how our modern civilisation is informed by scholars from numerous cultural and religious backgrounds. It is beyond refreshing to see your depictions of Islamic-garbed cartoons as this was and is a civilisation absolutely RICH in its scholars - such a contrast to how we see Muslims depicted in mainstream media. You guys rock, keep it up !

[@99unclesam17]

Wait for it... The Mongols. Dang it😥

[@roha1329]

Uncle Sam, Usually they are the exception.

[@samm.6060]

Hey uncle Sam

[@a_bone_in_the_ocean2276]

And then its Uncle sam

[@محمدالعنزي-ن4ز9ه]

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[@joynal27]

The grand city of Kiev suffered the same fate as Baghdad, courtesy of... You guessed it.

[@zelenplav1701]

A mechanical clock was presented to the King of France, who thought there was an evil spirit in it.

[@SohanDsouza]

4:06 Peak nerd in the ancient world: when you demand scientific texts as war loot.

[@TeachingandLearningOnline]

Great treatment of this era in the history of science! And wouldn't it be wonderful is translation was still held in such high esteem!

[@Muneeb__Arain]

*Those who think that Islamic Golden Age lasted in the 13th century may be wrong. Don't forget to mention the Mughal Empire who has the biggest economy in the world and use to contribute 24% of whole world's GDP and was the biggest Trader in the world until the 18th century. And, Another such Empire was the Ottoman Empire which lasted till the 20th century.* *Even today there are many richer Muslim nations in the world.*

[@mariakhan6090]

I literally jumped on hearing the precision of the circumference measurement

[@kzma009]

You summarised a lot in this amazing recaps. And your enthusiasm got me enlightened 🔥🔥

[@jeninabuhijelh699]

I like how he mentioned that the prophet mohammed, blessing and peace be upon him, passed away when islamic empower happened.

[@commie563]

If I ever get to travel in time, I would save the library from mongols

[@mohammadalawad1928]

Thanks for you all for your nice comments!!.I am glad that people can understand and admire our culture as a part of the overall human civilization progress

[@mohammadalawad1928]

@Dont Worry Now, it doesn't matter if he existed or not what matters that there are around 1.8B Muslims in the world.

[@Explore_Pakistan]

Muslims didn't only comment on the so called great " greek & Persian " scholars, but they got an inspiration from those scholars and the did their own research and progressed and excelled the knowledge they had to invent new devices/scientific laws/medicine/surgery techniques/agricultural practices/better understanding of the universe.

[@rauf3192]

If the library in Baghdad weren't burnt the world would have witnessed a different world,more knowledge and wisdom...

[@cherub3624]

Today I learned that Alexander the Great and the Roman's were supervillains, but Muhammad was not.

[@fahimzahir9587]

Thanks for bringing light to Islamic scholars and teaching. It means a lot when people can have a different view given everything going on these days.

[@salataYT]

حمد لله على نعمة الاسلام

[@makeupbyushna3085]

I learnt about history of science in medieval Islamic era in school but never new about the robots thing. This is seriously amazing.

[@jibrankhantareen7300]

On one occasion I read that the Prophet (peace be upon him), back in the times of war, used to say to the prisoners of war to teach 10 Muslim children to read and write, thus granting them their freedom. Islam was spread by the pen not the sword.

[@Jmzz542]

the first chapter to be recited to Mohammad by Gibrael ever was: Read in the name of your God who created, created man from clinging substance, read and your God is the most graceful, who taught with the pen, taught man what he (man) didn't know. it's read read taught pen taught knowledge. prisoners get money from Zaka it is forbidden to treat prisoners badly, in no way period. it is compulsory to free all prisoners of war once the war is over, no negotiations.

[@chronikhiles]

Say that to Iran and Egypt. I guess these nations just consensually gave up their unique cultures and civilisations in favour of a foreign faith. Wait, they didn't. The Arabs conquered them and forced them to convert or die and there's no point denying it. It's history. While it spread peacefully to countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, there's no doubt that terror was involved too.

[@Jmzz542]

@@chronikhiles you are just blabbering. you have no idea what you are talking about. seriously. not only that but you also completely blindly ignored what is written above and went to a different point altogether to spew your Islamophobia. Egypt and Syria took 600 and 300 years to convert to 50% Muslim. the forced conversion story is an old theory related to the old school western historians the "orientalists". their fake news propaganda to take down the Ottoman empire is debunked by simple chains of reasoning, by modern day scholars. do you know what the "Al Ohdah Al Omariya" stand for? look it up. 2nd point. Egypt was controlled by the Byzantines (this is just to show that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about) -a shining example of ignorance and delusion- the Byzantines were kicked back to where they came from. one thing you ignorant people don't realize is that the Arabs controlled the Mediterranean from 2500BC onwards. the Arab world today has always been Arab since 2500BC. even the southern part of Iberia was controlled by the Arabs as far back as 1100BC they founded cities like Cadiz, for example, it means Gadir/spring in Arabic.

[@muqtadaabdulzahrah2643]

don't forget his marriage of a 9 year old girl

[@jassimmn9004]

@@muqtadaabdulzahrah2643 well jesus was born from 13 years old girl so compare ! btw its not sure that he married her at 9 ! and use your real name christian

[@szlonkobusjbusj3819]

Despite beeing the root for the word France, the Frankish Empire was not "France" as you claim in your video. The elephant was taken to Aachen, which is today in Germany.

[@mohamedhamza456]

Indeed, Aachen was the capital of Karl Magnus aka Charlemagne.

[@khairiaris]

The Arabs referred to Western Europeans as “Franks” regardless where they came from. Because of you know, the crusades.. Most of the first crusaders came from Frankish regions..

[@khairiaris]

@Ganda Bacha In Malay Peninsula.. When the Portuguese first arrived, the Malays called them Feringi, which originated from Arabic word for Franks too

[@francoislacombe9071]

They were doing so well, what the hell happened?

[@derangedberger]

Religious extremism stifled progress, as it usually does. Similar to what happened in europe with the dark ages. Unfortunately, the islamic world has not ascended out of it's dark age as the christian world did in the renaissance.

[@darolien6672]

Francois Lacombe The Mongols came and burnt every living thing with the help of bezantine emperor. If you want to know what happened after that, do some research about Getrude Bill, Emmanuel Karaso, Alexander Israel Parvus, Lawrence of Arabia...... search in valid sources like a university's online library and not wikipedia because they never mention anything bad about them. Or watch the TV series Payitaht Abdulhamid. If you want to watch what mongols did then watch Dirilish Ertugrul Series.

[@ShawnManX]

The "alt-right" happened

[@hariszulfiqar4598]

Well Mongols conquered Baghdad and then threw all the books from the library into the nearby river. It is said that the river became black due to all the ink from the books. And after that ww1 and ww2 happened and currently united states and Israel is happening. You can say non-stop action is not letting us live in peace.

[@SoufianeSaidi]

Mongols invaded and burned the House of wisdom, and massacred most of the population of the Capital

[@ghadyahmad2031]

So proud my ancestors! Al-jazry you are the best!!

[@himbolastname6379]

I swear this channel is the only thing saving my grade. Keep up the good work!

[@idonttellmyhearttobeatbuti97]

Thanks for covering this enriched aspect of the Muslims. Always a pleasure knowing,learning.....from Crash Course.

[@thephelddagrif2907]

Make Southwest Asia Great Again

[@Saudi_in_an_audi]

The Phelddagrif you forget about the western side

[@Saudi_in_an_audi]

In Africa

[@yuatfan4864]

Please make more episodes on Muslim history science

[@KnuxTube]

The Al-Jazari sequence was literally stunning. I need to research further into the robotics.

[@samarah.2945]

They had amazing ethics, appreciation, team work and wisdom back then.....The world truly ended after that period and we began an alternate route. Great video guys and good effort for the pronunciation. :)

[@mab7727]

Thank God for your existance John green, finally someone on the internet who is neutral and does not spread hate.

[@TeachingandLearningOnline]

Yay, the no dark age insight! So glad to hear this. Great job here!

[@hohohohoh4043]

donato muslims must read quran once every 3 days at least else it becomes Hajr, which is pretty bad in sharia, very bad. all muslims were obligated to learn, reading and writing was the bare minimum. and because of the nature of islam, eliticism was strictly prohibited when u look into history try to be a lil bit unbiased, and never project your history on others

[@allangazali5025]

@@hohohohoh4043 you're not muslim ,i'm pretty sure with this.

[@allangazali5025]

@@hohohohoh4043 when we have a golden age you have a dark age .. hoho hoho

[@hohohohoh4043]

@@allangazali5025 what do u mean m not a muslim ?

[@naimulhaq9626]

This video says a lot about knowledge gathered by the Abbasid school in Baghdad, like astronomy and about mechanical machines, robot etc., but does not say anything about the library, at Alhambra, left behind by the moors, when they left Andalus. Europeans translated these books on science, mathematics and medicine etc., that helped Europeans become enlightened and free themselves from the dark ages. Kepler, Copernicus, Galileo (telescope), Fermat, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton (infinite series), Euler etc., all followed the knowledge preserved in the library at Alhambra, creating the modern civilization. It is noteworthy how the Europeans showed their gratefulness towards Islam and the Muslims.

[@noorazraq2245]

I feel so patriotic watching this while fasting in Ramadan.

[@koantao8321]

It should also be known that much of Islamacate knowledge was passed to European monks who could freely visit the Cordoba university and translate volumes into Latin. On top of this we have Fibonacci, who stayed in what is now Algeria and brought Islamic mathematics and numbers to Europe. Finally, The great dome in Florence by Brunelleschi is clearly influenced by Islamic ones, yet Italians still say "this is the world's first dome". The whole gothic architecture stems from the Islamic one, just go to Cairo where over 1000 year-old buildings have domes and gothic arches. Though, admittedly, European gothic evolved beautifully. Last but not least, the incredible discoveries in the field of medicine, from eye structure to blood circulation, Islamic science was 500 years ahead of Europe. Stupendous video!

[@oslonorway547]

So before the iPhone, there was .... _ISlam._

[@tankweeb9425]

Fancy seeing you here so early lol, normally I just see you on Sandman's comments or the TFM channel's.

[@sinomirneja771]

So will it be 1000 years after iPhone.

[@oslonorway547]

The NS Weeaboo I'm the _Diversity hire_ here.

[@Tsukiko.97]

Except it would be the IPhone that conquers all nations! :) Not to devalue Islam’s size significance itself.

[@balarab1]

Ayyyyy

[@alperena1675]

Just here for the comments. *sips tea ☕️*

[@johnlee7164]

Alperen Acik care for a scone?

[@dontlookatmyprofilepicxp2532]

Alperen Acik Sade mi açik mi? asdfghhngjk

[@Phylonyous]

LOL, I love the mariachi floating band!

[@quinius173]

Great video!

[@thegodemperors45thlegionof41]

Seems like a load of bull if you ask me.

[@geraltofrivia9167]

Alhamdulillah

[@empresshedo9350]

Destroy Leftists how so?

[@Yusuf-gh4xg]

Proclivity to Destroy Leftists No one asked tho!

[@lyn_shallash]

Did not know, that religion actually had a positive influence on science once.

[@gandaruvu]

määäääääääx it didn't. It just happened at the time Islamic world was so cosmopolitan, religious fundamentalism couldn't flourish. The reason science could grow was because religion didn't try to touch the realm of science, and that's how it's suppose to be.

[@varana]

It happened quite a few times. Religion and science are not necessarily antagonists.

[@creatinerd]

There was a time once,when Prophetes like Mohammed told the People to gain Knowledge for all costs,then we had primitive Radicalists and *BOOM* you see what we have now,thanks Lawrence of Arabia...

[@mtraa.942]

määäääääääx Actually some of those arab scientists were executed on charges of heresy. And yes religions what hold us back now ... .

[@neneklampir6664]

Mohamed Tarek True!! These knowledges are considered as Kalam/Qalam in Islam, hence it is taboo and Bidah. This is nothing to do with Islam.

[@dextrian]

Lets just say... i was looking for a compilation on how much the "dark ages" was the "golden ages" in the Islamic world. And western history always say something just like "well, must of roman knowledge was preserved by the Arabic , and they also add some useful things like the compass and better math number " Always bother me that somehow we went from ROMAN empire to Renascence ... with dark ages in the middle. That is not how the world works , now i better understand how it really was. Thank you sir.

[@montassarnasri6168]

It is sad to see our Educational systems nowadays and the overall state of the Islamic nation. Also, to my Muslim brothers and sisters stop playing the victim and blaming the colonialists for our downfall (even though that's partially true in the last 100_150 years) we fell off because of the corruption of monarchs and Dictators that were in power after the end of the Rashidun Caliphate and the ignorance of it's subjects. The Umayyed, Abbasid and Ottoman Caliphates were nothing but colonialist and terrorist states opposing many of the teachings of the prophet pbuh waging wars for their own gain for over a millienuem. That does not necessarily mean that it was all negative as it is shown in this video.Moreover, the west lifted themselves from the swamps of the dark ages and revolutionized their countries socially and economically instead of adopting conspiracy theories and victimizing themselves.

[@lindavilmaole5003]

Amazing revelations for us, who are teaching and learning in a Muslim area. The Medieval Islamicate World was filled with people who indulged in activities seeking theoretical knowledge side by side with the the application of it. Caliph Al-Rashid- supported the Translation Movement, Caliph Al-Mamun -commissioned a delegation to measure the circumference of the earth, Ibn Rush - the commentator, and men like Ibn Sina, Al Kwarishmi, polymath Abu Mashar, Persian Physician Al Razi, Indian-influenced Al-Biruni, Muhammad Musa shared their knowledge in medicine, mathematics, physics while the Musa Brothers, Al-Jazari (who tinkered on crankshaft and segmented gears that propelled our mechanical world of today) shared their knowledge in technology.

[@reysiejaycuares5289]

The Abbasid Caliphate was a crossroads or trading zone for Persian, Indian and Byzatine cultures. Blend of culture and belief systems made early Islamicate science cosmopolitan. Islam - the - religion called onits adherents to treat others as equals . Make Islamicate knowledge production more egalitarian. Al-Mansur sprawing metropolis quickly graw up. Al-Rashid supported the translation movement , Al-Khwarizmi book on calculation by compution and balancing , and manual of practical math . Polymath Al-Jazari wrote an even more amazing book on machines. The book of knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical devices.

[@reysiejaycuares5289]

Abbasid Caliphate was a crossroads or trading zone for Persian, Indian and Byzantine culture. Many languages flourished across the Abbasid Caliphate , as they did in the Emirate of Cordoba. Blend of culture and beliefs made early Islamicate science cosmopolitan. Islam - the - religion called on its adherents to treat others equals. Make Islamicate knowledge production more egalitarian. Al-Mansur sprawing metropolis quickly graw up , Al- Rashid supported the translation movement , Al Khwarizmi book on calculation by compution and balancing , and manual of practical math. Polymath Al - Jazari wrote an even more amazing book of knowledge of Ingenious Mechanicak Devices.

[@fatmahsumayyahlangco7971]

Arabian people should be proud to their self because of most their ancient work are still existing and using today as guide and well- preserved like for instant the Algebra, Medicine, Heliocentric Models of the Solar system, Machines, and Medieval Robot ( Humanoids Machines including one that can serve tea or water by Al-Jazi). But it so sad that some of the scholar are not mention on this video like for instant the Jazi, Al-Haytam and other scholar that should be inlcuded to this video.

[@gladysmaeruaya4295]

this video helps me to expand more my knowledge and understanding about the islam and in this, it help me to explore the beginning of islamicate period, such that the islamictae power expand rapidly after the prophet Muhammad. i learn that the islam religion is called a adherents to treat others as equals, helping make islamicate knowledge production more egalitarian.and the word "Baghdad" or they so called House of Wisdom made me confuse and shock. where it have 1M population in the world. i was really amaze from thier work especially on how they measure the earth its kinda weird and funny but it is scientifically approve.

[@iftisambalindong7381]

Its really amazing how the muslim scholars share their studies by opening an 'Bayt Al Hikmah' or house of wisdom which is the world's biggest library full of studies of the muslim scholars that is already translated in roman, greeks, and etc. It proves that muslim scholars has contribution in the history of science, like in astronomical studies astrological studies and etc. One of the example of their contributions are the machines they built like programmable machines, water wheels, watermill, water flute, etc which is very useful. Regardless of our origin, urban centers of trade and knowledge populated by natural philosophers desire to build upon earlier insights.

[@JMBAD_art]

I didn’t know about almost any of this... a shame we aren’t taught a lot of this in US schools, but wow I’m so glad I learned today

[@kawaiiobama8079]

the caspian report made a 1 hour video on this topic. it's really good.

[@Tsukiko.97]

I have been referring people to that video in some comment threads, I enjoyed it very much.

[@Aazammm]

Link?

[@ElBandito]

Al-Ma'mum be like: I need your books, your scrolls, and your manuscripts.

[@kaliarecords1511]

Ramadan Mubarak everyone! From an Israeli Jew haha

[@AppleCinnamonPie]

Thank you!

[@zigravos]

shana tova from a moroccan muslim

[@phillysipha]

The only caveat that i would highlight is that the "Translation movement" was not just translating text from one language to another but it also involved the revision of knowledge during that process as many ancient ideas realted to cosmology were corrected in the process. For instance the heliocentric model was introduced during this period.

[@donjonbro1432]

Im surprised that no hate came from this guy its hard to find good things on islam on youtube

[@umarshaikh3398]

Before there were wars, there was this!

[@ahmedkoroma1998]

Peasants were most definitely getting killed back then, by the armies.. raiding villages was a very common thing..

[@herodotus945]

There were ward, Muslims conquered Christian countries like Egypt for example.

[@osamab814]

Umar Shaikh haha there were wars MANY

[@herodotus945]

@ Egypt was a Christian nation from about 400 AD to 900 AD, even after muslim conquest it stayed majority Christian for some time. Google coptic orthodox church to learn more.

[@ShukRiBAhmEd]

Thanks for being so glorious ❤️ Love u from Yemen

[@avicennam7708]

I can't wait till you get on to Ibn Sina!!

[@Seaoflife.]

Avicenna M I was waiting for him to mention abas bin firnas and the Crater on the moon that was named after him

[@talelhassnawi7388]

ibn sina was an atheist tho and so does the other "muslim" scientists

[@avicennam7708]

He make the distilling coil and write (I think) 5 canons and one of them was used in Europe until the 1800 so that is mad. He is mostly know for he's ideas on medical practice. I'm just happen this cool guy gets some recognition.

[@asmrnaturecat984]

all muslim scientist is a pious muslim first, scholar second, completely the opposite of nowadays muslim scholar

[@moularaoul643]

Thanks.

[@abehaahsan4130]

Seriously, thanks :)

[@shakespearaamina9117]

I am proud to be a Muslim. Thank you for the lovely video 🌹🌹🌹 We are always learning from you 🌹🌹🌹❤️