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Detailed explanation-1: -The Abbasid dynasty-which was the guardian of science-was in decline and the Islamic world splintered into several kingdoms. Religious intolerance had been entrenched. And scientific inquiry suffered. Al Ghazali’s critique of falsafa was in fact meant to encourage independent inquiry.

Detailed explanation-2: -Muslim chemists developed recipes for products that had industrial and military applications. The discovery of inorganic acids during chemical experiments had valuable industrial applications in the centuries that followed. In the fields of pharmacology and pharmacy Muslims made notable progress.

Detailed explanation-3: -But it’s generally accepted that the golden age of Islamic science stretched from about 800–1400 ad, and its decline started more than a century before Western colonialism began in the late fifteenth century.