People rarely know facts about the golden age of Islam. We’re mentioning five fact as evidence of the Golden age of Islam, how Muslims rule the world not only by sword and authority, but intellectually with pen, the fact about the pen which enable Muslims to conquer the intellectual and cultural grounds of the world.

The flight (the Hegira) of Prophet Mohammad SAWW from Mecca in A.D. 622 is considered to be the beginning of the rise of Islam and the Islamic State. It also marks the beginning of the Islamic and the first Islamic State, or Hijri, calendar as well. However, the Muslims settled down later, and their Golden age is considered to be different from its birth. So let’s start the 5 facts about Islam regarding its Golden age.

1. The Islamic Golden Age, which is traditionally dated as being the 8th–13th centuries, was marked by the ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate.
    

2. The Abbasids were influenced by the Quran’s injunction that “the ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr.” During this time, therefore they emphasize more on education than Jihad.
    

3. The Arab world became an intellectual center for science, astronomy, chemistry, physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and education etc. Therefore, you can find many famous scholar and scientists in the Abbasid’s era.
    

4. The first ever University made by a women in the history of the world was a Muslim woman, the Muslims created a House of Wisdom (Bait-ul-Hikmat), which was active during the 9th –13th centuries, where both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars sought to translate the world’s knowledge into Arabic. Many classic works of antiquity that might have otherwise been lost were preserved in Arabic and Persian then later translated into Turkish, Hebrew, and Latin.
   
    

5. Muslim scholars Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sina were primarily responsible for saving the works of Aristotle, whose ideas would later dominate both the Christian and Muslim worlds.

These are some of the main facts about Islam determining the Golden age of Islamic world, where along with ruling the world with power and might, they also excel their abilities in intellectual grounds. If you know more facts about Islam, please don’t hesitate to mention it in comment box, as it is the need of time that Muslim could inspired by their glorious past.