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The Fall of the Roman Empire Episode 128 "The Abbasids: Golden Age or Age of Collapse?"
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Many historians call the Abbasid caliphate ‘the Golden Age of Islam’ but in this episode I want to analyse the contradiction in this description since, at a time when Islam underwent an undisputed cultural flowering, it also collapsed politically.
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