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Major periods of Muslim education and learning
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Education in Persian, Byzantine, early Russian, and Islamic civilizations > The Islamic Era > Major periods of Muslim education and learning
The renaissance of Islamic culture and scholarship developed largely under the 'Abbasid administration in eastern Islam and under the later Umayyads in western Islam, mainly in Spain, between 800 and 1000. This latter period, the golden age of Islamic scholarship, was largely a period of translation and interpretation of classical thoughts and their adaptation to Islamic theology…