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Robin
Pride male said:Would the Islamic world be any different if the Mongols hadn't destroyed Baghdad? And how glorious was the Islamic Golden Age?
Well the Muslims would arguably be more powerful if the Mongols didn't sack Baghdad, but besides that its really difficult to predict how different the Islamic World would be if that didn't happen. Some kind of Caliphate could've possibly survived for longer or lasted in to the present day probably.
The whole Islamic Golden Age thing is considerably exaggerated and part of modern Cultural-Marxist/Globalist or whatever you want to call it historical revisionism which comes from the dominant political interests in our present.
The Muslim Caliphate and other Muslim Empires are deliberately being made to look progressive, advanced and civilized even though that literally couldn't be farther from the truth. This is of course portrayed in contrast to the supposedly barbaric and primitive Christians/Europeans of that time ...
While i'm not an expert on the Muslim Caliphate, i definitely know a lot about the Ottoman Empire which was the most significant Muslim Empire after the Islamic Caliphates for several hundred years. I can certainly tell you that there was nothing civilized and advanced about it as it was literally built upon the forced assimilation, enslavement and genocide (This one only in 20th century) of thousands of non-muslims.
There is a rich but bloody and brutal history of conflict between non-muslims all over the world that has existed ever since the founding of Islam as a religion.
Since you're asking questions like these which indicate interest, i suggest you should take the time to read up on it.
