The Medieval Islamicate World

The Medieval Islamicate World flourished due to...

• blend of cultures and belief systems

• its expansive foreign politics

• high literacy rate

• study natural philosophical texts

The (a)   was a great library growing out of a private collection, which was opened up to visiting scholars, including delegations from India.

Why was the House of Wisdom important?

• it sponsored families of scholar–translators

• international center for translation and research

• it enhanced the Translation Movement

Give at least one reason of why the Translation Movement was significant.

critical centers of knowledge transmission and religious centers, with own library full of paper books were called..

• observatories

• school of mu‘tazilism

• madrasa

  (islamic college)

• gymnasium

In translating antique the texts, scholars wrote (a)   on them, comparing, summarizing,

and analyzing them.

Some scientists in the Islamic Empire already knew something about robotics and made important contributions to engineering. So important that some inventions are still used today.

• True

• False