Islamic Golden Age (750-1258 AD)

The Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate centred on Baghdad preserved and translated the works of Greek, Persian, and Indian thinkers, and produced original advances in algebra (Al-Khwarizmi), optics (Ibn al-Haytham), medicine (Avicenna's Canon of Medicine), astronomy, and philosophy that directly enabled the European Renaissance. Without the Islamic world's preservation and transmission of knowledge, the Scientific Revolution would have been centuries later.