From Late Medieval to Early Modern: 13th to 16th Century Islamic Intellectual History
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From Late Medieval to Early Modern: 13th to 16th Century Islamic Intellectual History
While standard accounts of Islamic history present the mid-13th century Mongol conquests as the final blow in the languishing decline of an Islamic empire whose ‘golden age’ had long passed, recent research has shown that the Mongol moment in the Middle East did more than merely mark the end of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad. It ushered in a protracted era of attempts by Muslim thinkers at a re-definition of the very core of Islam in the face of fundamentally changed … Continue Reading
