Why was medieval Islam so successful?

Even if the Hagia Sophia was originally a church, Islamic architecture is incredible, I like it a lot more than Gothic cathedrals and the like.

this is clearly a troll who knows the stupidity of his question.

Better question, were the stones on that gate actually blue?

Can somebody spoon feed me a brief history of Islam from inception to today?

They controlled the silk road between China and Europe. They benefited from trade and technological inventions from both cultures (India too). Really they were just in the right place at the right time. Incredible that a tribe of desert people were able to create such a large caliphate.

As a religion, it developed in the shadow of the early Arab empire as a form of resistance by dissident tribes on the frontiers as well as the vehicle of ethnogenesis for the first few generations of courtiers, bureaucrats, and officers growing up in mixed Arab/non-Arab households looking to self-segregate themselves from the Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian masses they ruled.

As a political order it consolidated Roman territories that had long been treated as peripheries and colonies but could not be completely subjugated by an ever weakening Roman authority. As the Semitic and Berber populations of North Africa and the Levant overtook the Greco-Roman urbanites, they synergized with the Arabs who settled closeby whereas the Romans and Persians had their powerbases in more distant regions. Just as the Western Latins gravitated towards the Germanics, the Levantines moved towards the Arabs and thus away from the increasingly Greek ERE.

Culturally and economically it succeeded because of the collapse of the rigid priesthoods that dominated schools and bureaucracies in the Classical World, replacing them with independent schools teaching students of secular backgrounds, all of whom shared a common language and supported their education pilgrimages across the Muslim world with economic trade and organizing student unions that cared more about learning for the sake of being learned (and thus more employable at rich courts) rather than for the sake of a state or church controlled institutional status-quo.

Militarily, it pushed most of the Middle East's belligerent tribes and ambitious adventurers to the lawless frontiers where the rich and capable among them gathered private armies and set out for personal gain, whether it involved raiding for loot or slaves, serving all sides in a petty mercenary war, or establishing a private principality to escape central authority, gather their own power for an eventual civil war, or just because they saw an opportunity.

>Islam is the first form of monotheism.

You are, maybe, the most spastic poster I have ever encountered on this board. Congratulations.

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This new wave of Mudslime shills is really something to behold.

So is the gate a reconstruction or was it found somewhat intact and revitalized?

>. Islam is the first form of monotheism.

islamic caliphates constantly taking advantage of weakness in neighboring states and invading.

600s, byzantines and sassanids had beaten the tar out of each other and the rashidun/umayyad caliphates took advantage.
700s, visigothic kings aristocracy betrayed him and fled the battle, causing their king to be surrounded and the royal ay massacred by the umayyads, the iberian peninsula basically falls overnight and only the asturian kingdom survived by hiding in the mountains.

this is so prevalent that local islamic governors would do this to each other hence the fracturing of the umayyad and abbasid caliphates.

completely this

Aside from the early Islamic conquest battles, AKA the ones where Muhammad was around. Muslims were nothing special.

dey jus stol averythin from da perianz and de indians !!

He is right tho as Islam is real form of Judaism.

>a person of unknown name remembered as "muhammad bin abdullah" is a byzantine agent that goes rogue
>creates a violent version of heretical christianity
>then

that's impossible as the qur'an has too many aramaic influences to have been created on the arabian peninsula

>islamic architecture
>posts quintessentially Byzantine model architecture
Ugh

WE WUZ JEWZ N SHIET

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Most people under their rule weren't muslims.

No whit*ids to ruin it

That was built by Greek architects in the Byzantine style as this poster says.

Retard.

They weren't at the beginning, then it went to shit as it became more muslim.

Brits and Yankees hadn't supported extremists yet.

built behind the backs and under the Greek Roman and Persian design,

Mind elaborating on that one?

Honestly? A heavily militarized society that focuses on going to war and literally nothing else. This is epitomized by the Ottoman Empire, who were the best in the world at conquering castles but stagnated socially and politically.

>Culture can be stolen

The islamic golden age is a meme.

because the rulers were still white

It really was. People have the notion that it was similar to the Renaissance when in actuality it was just a period when the Muslim world wasn't absolutely shit

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in all seriousness, this is probably the reason why

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham

>Culture can't be stolen

>It really was. People have the notion that it as similar to the Islamic Golden Age when in actuality it was just a period when the European world wasn't absolutely shit

See how baseless your assertion is? Contribute something other than masturbatory memes thanks

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A true golden age has lasting, residual effects. The Renaissance leads to the age of discovery. Islamic golden age didn't culminate anything noteable afterwords
>His golden age gets interrupted by steppe niggers
Nice golden age, son

>Why was medieval Islam so successful?

Lack of competition.

The Romans and the Iranians exhausted themselves warring against each others, and both were assaulted by barbarians(Turkic and Germanic) which weakened them further, the Levant was also in a state of constant unrest since the coming of Christianity, even Samaritans(relatively peaceful) became warlike because of it. Iberia and Maghreb were both ruled for a long time by Arians who persecuted voliently non-Arians.

To sum it up, most people were fed up with cuckstianity and its backers, thus they happily betrayed their oppressors and their ideology.

Thanks for the information, I didn't know that.

>The Grand proprietors of the spread of Islam didnt even acknowledge Islam at first
>Spread too fast to successfully govern and centralize
>the only successful Islamic state sanctioned pure Muslim Empire fell within one generation
>Split into two factions followed by many sub secs within the early years of its creation inevitably leading to endless war between the two.
>Only notable corporation and successful unity was during the 12th century, and once its leader died, the split reoccurred resulting in full on war.
>still fighting a war between each other today over extremist, contemporary, liberal and orthodox views.
sources: see Creation of Islam and Sunni and Shia split. Umayyad Caliphate. Nur, Zanghi, and Sal ah-din. Iranian-Arabian Cold War. Taliban. Isis.

Using elements from another culture isn't theft its inspiration. Only brainlets think something like the Romans adapting Greek gods is somehow cultural theft

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Turks

A lot of scientists in Islamic Empires were Turks. We invented a lot of stuff too.

Persian aryans.
If you study the Islamic golden age you will see a pattern, most of the advances are attributed to either Persians or Turks.

Even the round city of Bagdad was almost exclusively designed by Persian architects and engineers.
Arabs are barbarians, they don't create, they destroy.

>the guy who invented it said so, so it must be true

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli
idk maybe

>Arabs are barbarians, they don't create, they destroy.
theres a theory in ethnogeneology that says its heavily to do with the environment they came from. they came from a shithole, they are a shithole

Im pretty sure they are. Went to a museum in berlin where they reproduced the gate and used some of the fragments they found. You could see those as well and they looked blue, although time took its toll on them.

>this map

What? Muhammad wasn't around when the caliphate expanded from the arabic peninsula to the iberian peninsula. In fact all conquests worthy of notes were done by his auto-proclaimed successors

And these influences couldn't have found their way into the arabic peninsula because...?

He is referring to the western ingerence in the Middle East during the 20th century. Powers such as the US and britain kept financing groups to overthrow threats to their economical interests in the region. Most of the time, it came back to bite them in the ass and they labeled as "terrorists" the ones they previously called "rebels", and btw keeping unstable the entire region.

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That's deep...