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Back to EpisodesThe Abbasids: Golden Age or Age of Collapse?
Season 1
Episode 128
Published 7 months, 1 week ago
Description
Many historians call the Abbasid caliphate ‘the Golden Age of Islam’ but in this episode I want to analyse the contradiction in this description since, at a time when Islam underwent an undisputed cultural flowering, it also collapsed politically.
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