Or maybe another country can see it earlier?It will take China time to see why this new tool is economical and what they can do with it,
Or maybe another country can see it earlier?It will take China time to see why this new tool is economical and what they can do with it,
Maybe certain Seafarer?Or maybe another country can see it earlier?
I am curious about architecture. The alhambra palace in many ways is very similar to Central European baroque, so Al Andulas has real potential to create an islamic form of baroque.
I think it is also safe to assume the Al Andulsians are much more clean and hygienic then Western Europe, both given their already established bathing culture, and the Islamic insistence upon cleanliness.
Actually, looking at their baths, looks similar to those of the (classic) Roman era.
Nonetheless, might give them certain advantages?
A large part of it is city planning in all honesty.While they might be more hygienic, and the topic has come up before about how Anadlusi customs (lots of cats) and their attitudes toward disease helped them better tackle the plagues, we should be wary on continuing the:
Medieval Europe was a dark and horrible hell hole of disease and unkempt unbathed people.
Roman bathing traditions survived in many places across Europe and the views we have on their hygiene we’re largely crafted by Renaissance and Enlightenment writers who to defend their own horrible bathing and health practices said the ones before them were even worse.
I’m not saying the cities of Christian Europe would be beacons of cleanliness, just saying the slums of Isbilli are probably not far off from those of Paris.
A large part of it is city planning in all honesty.
My point isn't regarding the exaggerated claims of Europe completely lacking hygiene (yes, I know Paris had many public baths for example)
It is more regarding Islamic culture places extensive importance on cleanliness. It really doesn't matter your social class - bathing was heavily important. The fact one must be clean before saying the Shahada for example, is just one example the emphasis placed. When the Arab's entered Ctesiphon, they were disgusting by the Persian's lack of emphasis on bathing, with only a few baths in the Sasanian Empire, generally for the Shahanshah.
My post wasn't exactly stereotyping Europe's dirtiness - I was more talking about Islamic cleanliness. As you can see from my example above, (non european ) Islam in general requires cleanliness whenever possible, and while in rare cases they are excuses, being low class or living in a slum won't cut it in all honesty. They can bath in the river or in a crude tub, but being unhygienic isn't really excused and is very unfavorable in the vast majority of Islamic cultures.
Edit: I could also get into the Muslims reaction to Moscovite poor hygiene (not exactly central europe) and the fact in the Tang dynasty, the average noble bathed once in ten days, but my point is across pretty well. You are also correct on most of those, other than your last sentence which is what I corrected above.
I'll fully grasp all the linguistic stuff someday. Only then can I be a true member of the AHMADI-CRUZ PARLANTE GANG.A few quick tips about temple names:
We're at the tail end of what would be considered the Medieval Era - in fact we're just beginning to inch into the Early Modern Period. In general, the Muslim world has a more sophisticated understanding of hygiene and cleanliness than many other civilizations, but disease still tends to collect in cities. Isbili is cleaner than Paris, Rome or Venice (and Suzhou is cleaner still), and its inhabitants bathe more often and practice ceremonial cleanliness, but there are still areas of the city that are as unsanitary as any low-income neighbourhood in Paris, and Isbili's growth is driven primarily by migration from the countryside given that illness tends to stifle internal population growth.A large part of it is city planning in all honesty.
Yeah, you are correct though and I wish more people realized - it was not just Europeans who were appalling in terms of hygiene!Ah! My bad for assuming the bias against European cleanliness, totally agree with your points on this.
How is the architecture? I might have sounded basic earlier by bringing up the Alhambra Alcazar, but I pointed it out due to both the A. Time period. B. increasing sophistication. C. Increase of baroque elements.I'll fully grasp all the linguistic stuff someday. Only then can I be a true member of the AHMADI-CRUZ PARLANTE GANG.
We're at the tail end of what would be considered the Medieval Era - in fact we're just beginning to inch into the Early Modern Period. In general, the Muslim world has a more sophisticated understanding of hygiene and cleanliness than many other civilizations, but disease still tends to collect in cities. Isbili is cleaner than Paris, Rome or Venice (and Suzhou is cleaner still), and its inhabitants bathe more often and practice ceremonial cleanliness, but there are still areas of the city that are as unsanitary as any low-income neighbourhood in Paris, and Isbili's growth is driven primarily by migration from the countryside given that illness tends to stifle internal population growth.
The average Andalusi will live a few years longer than the average German, and the average Andalusi city has a lot more gardens and better facilities for sanitation, but it's not a vast gulf in most respects.
SUMMARY:
1405: Mahdia is captured by a Genoese fleet. The Igiderid dynasty crumbles, and the Nasrids of Kabylia step into the power vacuum.
1411: The Nasrids, backed by the Hizamids and Asmarids and with quiet support from the Harabids, recapture Mahdia from the Genoese.
1421: The Battle of Qawsra. With the assistance of Egyptian fleets, the Nasrids eject Genoa and Sicily from Melita.
1425: The Maghrebi merchant Ibn al-Jazuli is forbidden by the religious authorities from using Chinese printing press technology to mass-print copies of the Quran. The ruling passes into Islamic jurisprudence in Western Islam as a blanket ban on reproducing the Quran with a machine.
1433: Abd ar-Rahman the Seafarer dies after 54 years of rule. His son Al-Mansur takes power in his mid-50s.
power gradually flowed into the hands of subordinates - a weakening of the office which would force major changes by the time the century was out
A couple of explorers may have slipped across the Andes, but in general, the guinea pig isn't seen as food by the Muslims. An official ruling is almost certain to establish that a guinea pig is considered vermin, and consuming it is therefore haram. It would undoubtedly be permitted to keep one as a pet, though.Beautiful update! Glad to see turkey finally coming into play as foodstuff, I’m guessing guinea pig/cuy-cuy hasn’t been encountered yet?
I've been mentally constructing an update on what's happening in the rest of Europe. This is a period of change in Christendom, and there's a lot going on that's not directly relevant to Andalusian life.Now that we're in a new century I'd like to see what's been going on in Hungary, Germany, and Russia, especially if black powder has made its way to those theaters.
Perhaps the most remarkable trait of Ibn al-Layth as a thinker was his conceit that logic and faith did not contradict each other. An admirer of classical learners, particularly the Greeks, he seems to have held a hope of demonstrating the greatness of Islam by proving the rightness of God and His works not only through faith, but through empirical logic utterly undeniable to any reasonable audience. In his early writings, Ibn al-Layth posits that there are two paths to wisdom: Quranic wisdom on one hand, and logic on the other. Critical analysis of Ibn al-Layth's writings strongly suggest that he was intimately familiar with the works of Aristotle; in particular, his short treatise Concerning Reason and the Revealed, he seems to strike a few Aristotelian notes, ultimately drawing the conclusion that logic is a parallel course in interpreting the world - in particular, he suggests that while God is the ultimate cause of all things, creation comes more as a set of divine laws than as direct interventions, and logic can be used to understand those laws.