Episode 5: The Caliphate
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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The Limits of Tolerance and Religious Freedom for Non Moslems
The abasset caliphate contributed vastly to expanding the limits of mediaeval thought and reason. The rediscovery of classical knowledge that would take place in the west after the turn of the millennium might have been delayed and ard. Even the greek byzantines, who had given up secular greek writings for a couple of centuries, went back to study their pagan rootes when their deadly rivals started churning out translations of greek works.
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