This is of course a massive generalisation, and ignores Islamic lands in Europe, such a Moorish Spain and Arab Sicily, as well as Europeans in the Middle East, such as the Byzantine Empire, and various travellers both ways over the ages.The КїAbbДЃsid caliphate is the period of the Golden Age in Islamic music.By the end of the Dark Ages, Islam's 'Golden Age' was just about finished.The problem with turning this list of intellectual achievements into a convincing 'Islamic' golden age is that whatever flourished, did so not by reason of Islam but in spite of Islam.Andrew Bostom has skewered the myth that Cordoba was a model of ecumenism Trikovic has shown that the continuation of learning, science, technology of the 'Golden age of Islam' prospered in spite of Islam and not because of Islam and now we have Emmet Scott skewering the myth that the Golden Age of Islam saved Classical humanistic Western culture.Golden like the sun, golden like the light it was not a dark age.While Central Europe languished in the Dark Ages of ignorance, fear and superstition following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5 th century (so the story goes), it was the Islamic world that carried the torch of Classical civilization to a Europe finally stumbling out of the Dark Ages in the 15 th century.The Islamic Golden Age is traditionally dated from the mid-7th century to the mid-13th century at which Muslim rulers established one of the largest empires in history.

Islam Watch has a good article entitled Europe's Dark Age and Islam's Golden Age: Two Facets of The Same Fiction? (More.).

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