Audrey Carlson’s Reviews > Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization > Status Update

Reading the chapters about Baghdad and Cordoba - the highlighted themes of cosmopolitanism and intellectual development, and then it is destroyed by extremism and regime change.
“…championing the greatest cultural efflorescence” to “declaring war on intellectual freedom”
It felt like watching Episode 3 of Star Wars, you desperately want the ending to change this time, but it doesn’t.