Arab Empire (635–1099 AD)
The Muslim Arab Empire, whose center of power was Baghdad, divided the world into the culture of the East and the culture of the West. The Muslim Empire acted as an economic and scientific bridge between East Asia and Europe. During this period, manuscripts of both Greek philosophy and letters from India and China were translated into Arabic, leading to impressive developments in medicine, natural sciences, geography, algebra, literature and poetry.
Discourse between Judaism, Christianity and Islam motivated science and philosophy. Unfortunately, this development was thwarted in the Muslim part of the world by conservative currents in Islam. This continues to this day.
Innovations found their way to Europe. The Jewish world is known for the Golden Age of the Jews of Spain and Moses Maimonides, who connected the past and present in Judaism. Maimonides (Rambam) was an Andalusian Jewish philosopher, jurist, theologian and physician who worked primarily in Spain and Egypt.
During the Arab era, Jewish communities existed all over the world....
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