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LECTURE:

RISE OF ISLAM Rise of Islam (7th c.) Muhammad

• Five Pillars
  
  • Shahadataan: Declaration of Faith
  • Salaah: prayer
  • Sawm: fasting
  • Zakaah: charity
  • Hajj: pilgrimage
• expansion

Islam's Golden Age (8th - 9th c.)

• Abbasid caliphate
• mathematics
• medicine
  Ibn Sina on testing new medicine
  Al-Razi on smallpox and measles
• philosophy
  Ibn Rushd
• astronomy
  astrolabe: disapproval in Europe

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