A God Among MGTOW - Alhazen

Sandman: So I'm going to make another video in my ongoing series called A God Among MGTOW. This one is about the Arab polymath and philosopher living in the golden age of Islam. Most people don't know this but while much of Europe was in the Feudal dark ages Islam was going through a golden age from about the time around 800 AD until about 1250 AD. This was a period of time with Islam developed universities, hospitals, systems of commerce and by many accounts they were the most advanced civilization in the world. Their territory stretched from Spain in the west and to Pakistan in the east. And it was during that time that art, architecture and knowledge flourished. Many Muslim scholars saved many great works of European philosophers such as Aristotle.
And believe it or not Islam was far more liberal back then. And there were many advances in Math, Physics, Medicine (Where doctors needed to be licensed) and many other breakthroughs. What was also interesting was the freedom of expression. And according to the Shorter Shiite Encyclopedia, this is what it says about times back then about this Fatimid era: "Perhaps the most significant feature of the Fatimid era were the freedoms given to the people and liberties given to the mind and reason. People could believe whatever they liked provided they did not infringe other's rights. The Fatimids reserved separate pulpits for different Islamic sects, and scholars expressed their ideas in whatever manner they pleased. The Fatimids gave patronage to scholars and invited them from every place, financially supported them, and ignored what they believed in, even when it went against Fatimid beliefs. So what changed? Why did Islam go from the most advanced culture in the world to what we see today? Well the Mongol hoards invaded. They sacked Baghdad in 1258 AD and they demoralized Islam. And as a result the Islam began putting more focus on its very existence instead of developing knowledge, culture and great thinkers. But during that golden period one man going his own way changed the course of history and lay the foundations of modern science. And that man was Ibn Al-Haytham (I hope I'm pronouncing his name correctly,) also known as Alhazen. He was the Tesla of his time. Nikola Tesla wanted to harness Niagara Falls for power and he did achieve that. But Alhazan drempt of capturing the waters of the Nile to build a dam and use the water power to drive progress in the Islamic Empire. Obviously people didn't know about electricity back then and he was more interesting in regulating the flooding of the Nile each and every time it flooded. No one knows for sure what happened by apparently Alhazen tried to build a dam and after he realized the job couldn't be done his life was in jeopardy from the the ruler.




Before Newton, there was Alhazen
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