Discuss how the invention and use of paper affects the development of Islamic culture.
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In Islam’s golden age, paper became the prime medium of memory and the focus of calligraphers and artists who created not only scholarly treatises but also romances, epics, and lyric poetry. Muslim societies had many more books than Europeans did, and they also translated Aristotle and other Greeks long before Europeans did. The works of Aristotle were introduced by Muslims in Spain, creating a Renaissance in European philosophy, medicine, and science. Increased intellectual curiosity was fostered by the growth of learning and how that was made possible by the explosion of books. As a result of book production, Abbasid Baghdad was the center of world culture. Paper books made cultural eloquence manifest and transportable, allowing Islamic learning, and the Islamic faith, to spread throughout the world.
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