Was the Islamic Golden Age down to Islam and the Arabs...

Was the Islamic Golden Age down to Islam and the Arabs, or were they simply riding on the coat tails of the superior cultures they conquered?

A little bit of both

>superior cultures they conquered

How does an inferior culture conquer a superior one?

With horse archers.

With a army?

how did barbarians conquer Rome?

By the superior ones being severely weakened by plague and war

So then the superior culture had an inferior army.

So how is their culture superior to begin with?

They don't Fuck goats for starters

Right, civilized people fuck the noble deer.

Rome's economy was collapsing

They stole everything from glorious Zoroastrian Persia, everything.

t. Bahram

Depends - there were some good Muslims caliphs, there were some bad ones.

what does that have to do with anything, they were still a superior culture

He answered it for you. Central Asia was an intellectual powerhouse before being conquered, though the stability, lingua franca and (up to the 12th Century) state support for intellectuals that typified Arab rule over Central Asia certainly helped it.

Good book on the subject is "Lost Enlightenment"

persia is not central asia

Technically it is.

That is simply false.
They stole plenty of things from India and the Byzantines

This.

>India and the Byzantines
they outdid them both.

>Euros and Asians culture is created from the exchange of ideas and past civilizations influence
"Truly a superior culture"
>Arabs culture is created from the exchange of ideas and past civilizations influence
"Huurrr they stole it!!!!! The golden age is a leftist lie"

Sometimes I wonder if anyone in this board has ever actually read a history book

>riding on the coat tails of the superior cultures they conquered
every empire ever did this

This. Idk why denying the achievements of other cultures is something so many conservatives feel like they need to do. As if you need to disregard all others cultures to be proud of your own.