What were the most important cultural achievements of the Arab civilization?

Even before the advent of Islam, the Arabs created their own writing, it was similar to the Aramaic cursive. The religion of Islam – it became one of the three worlds, in the Middle Ages Islam was in Europe (Iberian Peninsula), North Africa, Asia to India, later penetrated into Myanmar, Sumatra and a little to China.

In the 9th-10th centuries, academies appeared in Baghdad, Fez and Cairo. Muslims consider them to be universities.

Thanks to the Arabs, the works of a number of ancient philosophers (Archimedes, Ptolemy) penetrated and became known to Europe.

They built several observatories (Baghdad and Damascus), measured the arc of the meridian, introduced the concept of “algebra”.

In architecture, they created the Moorish style.