The Islamic Empire

The Islamic Empire was the most revolutionary Empire of it’s time. It incorporated information from other cultures, and translated it into their own. They made countless advances in mathematics and science, and duplicated this information into libraries.

While the European world was oblivious to ancient Greece, the Islamic Empire noticed many of their scholars and information. The took classics such as Aristotle, and translated his studies into Arabic. From the 700s to the 900s everything from Greek medicine to magic was translated into Arabic. This practice of translating information gave birth to many cultural centers.

Major cultural centers were located in Persia, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. Many of these centers gave birth to great scholars. Two of the most noteworthy of these scholars were Avicenna (980–1137) and Averroës (1126–1198). Avicenna, one of the leading Islamic interpreters of Aristotle, wrote around two hundred works on science, religion, philosophy, and other subjects. Averroës, with his attempts to reconcile religious faith and Greek philosophy, would influence a number of Jewish and Christian thinkers.

Losing its power, the Arabic Empire turned into many competing dynasties. Out of all the different dynasties only a few rose to stand out. Namely, two Egyptian ruling houses. Egypt was ruled by members of the Shi’ite Ismaili, who founded the Fatimids dynasty. The Fatimids established the city of Cairo, and ruled from 909 to 1171. However, the Fatimids dynasty was overtaken by the