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Quaestio : How did Muslims balance science and religion during the Muslim Golden Age? Nunc Agenda: Open your textbook to page 321, read everything and answer the question on the screen. Page 321. What evidence of “ cultural diffusion” can you find in these examples?.

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  1. Quaestio: How did Muslims balance science and religion during the Muslim Golden Age?Nunc Agenda: Open your textbook to page 321, read everything and answer the question on the screen...

  2. Page 321 What evidence of “cultural diffusion” can you find in these examples?

  3. Golden Age of Islam: Key Points • Advances in many fields: science, medicine, math, astronomy, literature, art, architecture, philosophy, etc • Muslim scholars translated texts from Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian into Arabic • At same time, Europe in the “Dark Ages” • Preserved Greco-Roman knowledge for Europe • Little or no conflict between religion and science • Jewish and Christian involvement • High social mobility (ability to move up and down in society

  4. Golden Age of Islam • House of Wisdom- a library, translation institute and research center established in Abbasid-era Baghdad

  5. Mathematics • Al Khwarizmi • pioneer in the study of Algebra (Al-Jabr: “The Substitution”) • His math textbook became standard in Europe • “Algorithm” named after him • Hindu-Arabic numerals- Our numbers based on Arabic numbers, which the Arabs borrowed from India

  6. 1. According to Al-Ghazali, should math and religion be separate?2. What does the reading tell you about Islamic values?

  7. PENSA • Re-read Chapter 10 Section 3, ONLY the sub-sections titled “Social and Economic Advances” and “Muslims Seek Knowledge” and answer the TWO (just two!) Checkpoint Questions in AT LEAST THREE SENTENCES EACH!

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