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Looking to Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages it is possible to see that both were very similar societies. In the world of Christianity and the world of Islam there was a strong faith in religion. Among the peoples of these lands were men and women who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the defense of their faiths, as we can see in the Crusades. More or less both parts of the world have very similar ideas on social relations with some minor differences in details. Similarly the political and economic systems may have been different but in essence they were not liberal. Can we therefore say that both Islam and Christendom held many similarities during the Middle Ages? Today it would even be possible to say that Europe and the Middle East are even further apart culturally than they were in the Middle Ages.
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No, they weren't.
Muslim worlds of the Middle Ages had many advancements within medicine and hospitals, and even gave rise to things such as syringes and caesareans. Christian worlds of the Middle Ages had things like hospitals, but they were more caring than curing. They relied on prayer a lot, and didn't look for physical advancements, whereas the Muslims relied on not only prayer but science and physical advancements.
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They were contiguous regions of the world which had achieved comparable levels of political, economic and social development. The Islamic world was slightly more technologically and culturally advanced than Europe, but not by all that much. Their respective societies were both organised around a fanatical and intolerant faith in a monotheistic religion which both had their roots in Judaism. So yeah, they were more similar to each other than either of them were to, say, China or the Mongols.
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Similarly the political and economic systems may have been different but in essence they were not liberal.


:eh:

Are you saying that the Feudal Europe and the Caliphate where not liberal? What tipped you off?

Can we therefore say that both Islam and Christendom held many similarities during the Middle Ages?


Yeah.... you know Religion, nobility, class structure etc. Muslims where more advanced then Christendom ; culturally, scientifically, militarily, social justice and equality etc.

China or the Mongols.


China was certainly more advanced than Europe and so where the Mongols. The Mongol military was the most advanced military of its time. If Odegei had not died when he did Batu would have turned Europe into a Wasteland and trampled the Pope under a horse in Rome just as the Mongol's trampled the Caliph in Baghdad.
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China was certainly more advanced than Europe and so where the Mongols. The Mongol military was the most advanced military of its time. If Odegei had not died when he did Batu would have turned Europe into a Wasteland and trampled the Pope under a horse in Rome just as the Mongol's trampled the Caliph in Baghdad.

I'm inclined to agree with you. However, the question was not which was the most advanced culture of that time, but how similar medieval Europe and the medieval Islamic Caliphate were to each other.
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