Islamic Golden Age

• Islamic Golden Age


  a period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the eighth century to the fourteenth century.
• Abbasid Harun Al-Rashid


  The ruler during the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age (786 - 809)
• Islamic Scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. Scientific inquiry was practiced in other subjects like alchemy and chemistry, botany, and agronomy, geography and cartography, ophthalmology, pharmacology, physics and zoology.
• Islamic Science


  Characterized by having practical purposes as well as the goal of understanding.
• Astronomy


  was useful in determining the Qibla, which is the direction in which to pray.
• Botany


  Applied in agriculture and geography enabled scientists to make accurate maps.
• Mathematicians who published works to advance Algebra, Trigonometry, geometry, and Arabic numerals.

  • Jamshid al Kashi
  • Al-Khwarizmi
  • Avicenna
• Al-Biruni & Avicenna


  Produced books that contain descriptions of the preparation of hundred of drugs made from medicinal plants and chemical compounds.
• Ibn Al-Haytham


  Islamic physicists studied optics and mechanics as well as astronomy, and criticized Aristotle's view of motion.