The Islamic Golden Age ended when Imam Hamid al-Ghazali said that the manipulation of numbers was the work of the devil. And to be absolutely clear, it was the SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIONS from the region that justified the “Golden Age”, not the religious teachings. The Middle East still has the religious teachings, and if that was all they needed, then they should be successful today in all scientific endeavors. But we have nearly 2 Billion Muslims on the planet and they’ve done nothing note-worthy in the past few centuries, other than leading genocides.
Islam has been the plague that corrupted the turkish people since, well Islam's invasion of turkish occupied lands. Turkish were peaceful and a good people until this genocidal ideology reached their lands. The end result of that is Ottoman empire who turned into an expansionist empire that primarily acted to advance the cause of Islam. Mind that turkish people were a polytheistic society who worshipped god of earth, god of sky and believed in the underworld realm which they've sent their dead. Their spiritual belief system was shamanism/animism and it was about ancestral worship, aka fathers spirit live through the son. Like christianity that expanded through affiliating itself with european pagans, islam did this through attaching itself to turkish pagans in the mediterraneans and black sea. Although they might not have been all turkish who lived in this geography, they were most definitely not monotheistic societies. So all this golden age of Islam shit is basically islam finding a worthy host, people who basically investigated the nature.
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Why don't we try it again, so we can compare and contrast