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[quote=Anonymous]The caliphate was tolerant of other religions partly because the Muslim conquerors had expanded so fast, across North Africa and into Asia, that they were minorities, or at least not overwhelming majorities, in many of the lands they had conquered just a few hundred years ago. It would have been political suicide to try to impose a strict form of their religion on everybody under those circumstances, even if they had wanted to. Also, it was pragmatic to allow talented non-believers to rise in government. Much of this need for restraint no longer exists today. Yes to the flowering of literature and sciences, much more than Europe before the Renaissance. Historians no longer talk about a European Dark Ages, because there is lots of evidence that intellectual pursuits continued throughout, but much of the learning came from trade with Muslims.[/quote]
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