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We're going to skate to one song, one song only.

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Politically, it broke up, but the culture was igniting.

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For 500 years, Islamic influence was splendid.

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Architecture, mathematics, knowledge never ended.

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Muslim doctors created hospitals for patients,

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and pharmacists worked to develop medication.

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Astronomy was making big headway, just stargazing.

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Zoology and irrigation, too, the soaps amazings.

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Muslims believed God wanted them to be curious,

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An unexamined life might make the Almighty furious

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City of Baghdad is where it all was founded

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Within four years the center city was surrounded

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A hundred thousand workers building walls of beauty

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Markets springing up as workers going about their duty

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The mosques are beautiful too, great architecture

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And many went to universities for their adventure

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Muhammad said the ink of scholars is more precious than blood

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So seek the knowledge they did to please their God above

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House of Wisdom opened up in 830

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Scholars in Baghdad from all over started learning

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Libraries encoded the texts from Greece and Persia

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Tried to use reason to tame the spiritual inertia

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Muslims were studious about geography

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Calculating Earth's circumference mind-bogglingly

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Clear-eyed knowledge, trading routes and far places

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Navigation instruments kept calm on their faces

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It's the Muslim contribution

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Reaching out across the globe

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Got their minds free of pollution

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Packing it with all the things they know

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Al-Khawazizmi, algebra's father

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If it wasn't for this man with math you could not bother

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His book on algebra was put in Latin 12th century

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European thinkers praising it like it was meant for me

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Arabic numerals, the number zero

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These were brought to Europe through scholarly heroes

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We use Arabic numerals still

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Ideas exchange when we mix and spill

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Medicine was learned from the Greeks and the Egyptians

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The Muslims developed it, wrote more accurate prescriptions

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Surgeons were amputating limbs, doctors writing books

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In it medical students of today still look

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Bookmaking and literature, art and music plenty

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Calligraphy, writing, tendril thread quite lengthy

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Textiles of clock, polo and chess they're playing

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Islamic life so vibrant while still working and praying

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I'm out