Today was the End of the Siege of Baghdad that ended with the destruction of the city and the End of the Islamic Golden Era.
During this period, artists, engineers, scholars, poets, philosophers, geographers and traders in the Islamic world contributed to agriculture, the arts, economics, industry, law, literature, navigation, philosophy, sciences, sociology, and technology, both by preserving earlier traditions and by adding inventions and innovations of their own.
Also at that time the Muslim world became a major intellectual centre for science, philosophy, medicine and education. In Baghdad they established the “House of Wisdom“, where scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, sought to gather and translate the world’s knowledge into Arabic in the Translation Movement.
Many classic works of antiquity that would otherwise have been forgotten were translated into Arabic and later in turn translated into Turkish, Sindhi, Persian, Hebrew and Latin. Knowledge was synthesized from works originating in ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Rome, China, India, Persia, Ancient Egypt, North Africa, Ancient Greece and Byzantine civilizations.
Rival Muslim dynasties such as the Fatimids of Egypt and the Umayyads of al-Andalus were also major intellectual centres with cities such as Cairo and Córdoba rivaling Baghdad.
A major innovation of this period was paper – originally a secret tightly guarded by the Chinese. The Arabs improved upon the Chinese techniques of using mulberry bark by using starch to account for the Muslim preference for pens vs. the Chinese for brushes. By AD 900 there were hundreds of shops employing scribes and binders for books in Baghdad and public libraries began to become established.
Much of this learning and development can be linked to topography. Even prior to Islam’s presence, the city of Mecca served as a center of trade in Arabia. The tradition of the pilgrimage to Mecca became a center for exchanging ideas and goods.
Many medieval Muslim thinkers pursued humanistic, rational and scientific discourses in their search for knowledge, meaning and values. A wide range of Islamic writings on love, poetry, history and philosophical theology show that medieval Islamic thought was open to the humanistic ideas of individualism, occasional secularism, skepticism and liberalism.
Religious freedom, though society was still controlled under Islamic values, helped create cross-cultural networks by attracting Muslim, Christian and Jewish intellectuals and thereby helped spawn the greatest period of philosophical creativity in the Middle Ages from the 8th to 13th centuries.
A number of distinct features of the modern library were introduced in the Islamic world, where libraries not only served as a collection of manuscripts as was the case in ancient libraries, but also as a public library and lending library, a centre for the instruction and spread of sciences and ideas, a place for meetings and discussions, and sometimes as a lodging for scholars or boarding school for pupils.
The concept of the library catalogue was also introduced in medieval Islamic libraries, where books were organized into specific genres and categories.
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my lib friend is ok with my being a communist, but thinks that communist is when every one has to work all the time and can only wear gray and no food. I need to ask her why she thinks I'm a communist. Like, why would anyone want that? Plus, why are you okay hanging out with me if that is something that you think I want?
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she prides herself on being friends with anyone/both sides.
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shes that same lib friend that I posted about dating awhile ago and her problematic politics. the update is that we broke up for a bit, but covid loneliness is real, but we're down graded to friends with benefits. I really try to avoid politics with her now, because her takes are too much. but I might have to just ask what she knows/thinks she knows about communism, because I'm curious
Dude. Sometimes it's best just to divorce yourself from caring what this person thinks on certain issues. You're going to ask questions and you won't like the answers. However if you chill on it- this may cause your level of intimacy to dead end, but it may also allow them the room to change their perspective since there's no pressure from you to have them give in to your point of view. However, I fully would understand trying to get to the bottom of it and hashing shit out. Really depends on how you, and only you, are best suited to deal with the fallout.
tl;dr - sometimes chilling on a subject is beneficial for everyone invloved.
Definitely the move for right now. She's moving this summer, so I'll just enjoy it for what it is/not cause waves. Maybe after she moves and we're still friends I'll do more digging
Tell her that women in socialist societies are scientifically proven to be more sexually satisfied.
Communist are the best fucks, it's a science fact