Apr 03, 2023 at 20:00
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Islamic Art
Some people living today assume that the West has always been leading the world. However, in 2004, John M. Hobson noted in The Eastern Origins of Western Civilizations (Cambridge, p. 272; Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de), in the year 900, the Islamic Middle East/North Africa was the cradle of civilization, the most advanced region in the world economically, standing at the centre of the global economy, enjoying considerable economic growth and even per capita income growth. John M. Hobson mentioned the following reasons: it was a pacified region in which towns sprang up and capitalists engaged in long-distance global trade; Muslim merchants were not only traders but rational capitalist investors who traded, invested...
