MUH ARABIC TRANSCRIPTIONS
Who is Boethius? Who are nameless monks transcribing Plato meticulously? Who invented gear-based clocks that revolutionized the telling of time? Who combined salt-peter, charcoal and sulphur? Friar Roger motherfucking Bacon. Who wrote down the most beautiful poetry known to man-kind? Snorri motherfucking Sturluson. Who conquered Sicily and the (((Holy Land)))? Motherfucking Normans. Who brought back Heliocentric Astronomy? Some Polish faggot. Who pointed out that there are elliptical orbits? Some German faggot. Who discovered the mathematical principles of gravity and fucking calculus? Some English faggot. Who colonized the world over, and shot at each other with fucking gatling guns, invented tanks and caused unprecedented amount of death? White dudes.
The Islamic Golden Age, such as it was, ended far earlier than 1258. The Buyids or Seljuks have a greater claim to have brought it to an end, or possibly the Turkish military of Samarra with their recurrent coups from the death of al-Mutawakkil. At any rate, after the death of al-Ma'mun, the amount of material translated into Arabic dropped enormously.
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what golden age lol