Islam IS the true religion of humanity.

[Bad Writer]

You are absolutely right. Baghdad was pristine until the Mongol invasion. I had my cities mixed up in my head, but I looked it up and got things straight. No, the real loss was the library at Alexandria that Caliph Omar ordered to be destroyed. That was before Baghdad.

But, like my earlier caveat said, those who were responsible for the renaissance were scholars that happened to be Muslims. Islam isn't necessarily the reason they were intellectually enlightened; Baghdad's location as a central hub to the world had everything to do with how they needed to be more open to new thoughts and ideas. Otherwise they would have remained a bunch of assholes like Caliph Omar.