Explore the debate surrounding the socalled Golden Age of Muslims, often attributed to the Mutazilite period, which some argue contradicts traditional Islamic beliefs. This era is portrayed as a time ...

(See pictures of how Islam is practiced in Asia.) Part of the problem dates to Muhammad. Even as he proclaimed new rights for women, he enshrined their inequality in immutable law, passed down as ...

Elaborating on the ‘grand golden age narrative’, Ahmed spoke about the initial 400 years of Islam starting from the translation movement when scientific works in Greek, Sanskrit and other ...

Golden Age of Islam and lessons for today — I. Akbar Ahmed. June 29, 2021. The great philosopher Ibn Rushd (known in the West as Averroes) almost single-handedly restored Greek philosophy ...