Caliphate

The Kingdom of Benin was an important African kingdom that flourished between the 13th and 19th centuries AD. Benin was located in the southwestern part of modern-day Nigeria, with Benin City as its capital.

The Abbassid Caliphate ruled from Baghdad and was considered the Islamic Golden Age, from 750 to 1258, fostering great cultural and scientific growth.

This epic attempt to condense the history of the world — including the rise and fall of empires — fits into a single video.

It was built by the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān in the late 7th century, around 71-72 years after Hijra. The noble rock which lies underneath the famous Gold Dome is believed to be the original point of the Qiblah, known as Sakhrah al Musharrafah. ⁠

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What about other, lesser-known Andalusian scientists who were also important for their contributions? Here’s a short compilation.

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Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī, is known as "the Philosopher of the Islamic empire (Abbasid Caliphate)". was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world.