Has to be the most western centric bs I read.
Muslims knew their own history regardless of which empire or kingdom.
Golden Age regardless of which era of civilisation has always been made up by scholars and historians overtime. Because its constantly compared to their decline. Even the Spanish had a "Golden Age". Not even the Spaniards realised it.
Islamic golden age ending in 1258 is bs. Because it ignores the Turkic contributions like the Mamluks, Ottomans, Mughals and the Timurids.
Westerners and Pan Arabist historians will conviently leave all that out to suit their own agendas. Not to mention how Western Colonialism used the Islamic Golden age against the Arabs by telling the Arabs look the Barbaric Turks are keeping you down.
Baghdad and the Abbassid Caliphate was in long decline before the Mongol Invasion. It cant be denied that Baghdad was a centre of knowledge but there were also other cities of knowledge like Cordoba, Bukhara, Cairo and Damascus which rivalled Baghdad.
Bernard Lewis's Ottoman Decline thesis has largely been obsolete. The problem is Turkish history are teachers are still teaching Bernard Lewis's obsolete works.
The Ottoman Empire survived its greatest crisises in the 1600s. Despite surviving the cracks were beginning to appear the Ottomans did not just stay do nothing they tried to reform themselves even back then.
Even the Turkish republic goes through its own reforms to keep itself in shape. The advantage it is not an empire not ruling different ethnic groups from Vienna to Baghdad.
Arabist means an scholar of Arabic philology.
And during the early modern (15th, 16th) and the later two centuries (17th and 18th), the number of scholarly works recognizing and commentating on the contributions of the scientists of the Islamic golden age (the likes of Ibn Shatir, Ibn-Hayhtam, Al-Samawal, Ismail ibn Fallūs, Avempace, Ibn Tufail, Al-Bitruji, Al-Fazari, al-Tamimi, Ibn Butlan, Al-Zahrawi, Avenzoar, Al-Jazari, Al-Farghani, Abu Kamil Shuja, Al-Battani, Ahmad ibn Abi al-Ash'ath, Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, Hasan al-Rammah, Abu-Uthman Al-Jahiz) published in Arabic, Turkish or Persian was less than the fingers of one hand.
The fact that these people and their contributions weren't know by Muslims after around 14th century has to be an obvious point with no need to get riled up about, if one looks at how much they are known now and how many scholarly works in history of science is published about their works in Islamic countries right now (let alone 300-400 years ago). A fact very much reinforced ever so slightly by the fact that all of the critical editions of the works of these thinkers was produced by western 'Arabists', medievalists, philologists and orientalists (Like Brockelmann, Wellhausen, Nöldeke, etc.) of late 19th and early 20th century. Also many of hitherto unknown works of these Islamic thinkers were discovered and recovered from Latin translations or from manuscripts decaying in archives in Iran, Egypt, etc. and introduced for the first time to modern audiences (audiences comprised of 95% Westerners). This last point can be checked by looking around and asking friends and family, how many of them have read the works of the thinkers I listed above.
Islamic golden age ending in 1258 is bs. Because it ignores the Turkic contributions like the Mamluks, Ottomans, Mughals and the Timurids.
Yep, it's bs as there's nothing to that effect in what I wrote.