Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Islamic Golden Age: Naming Rights
Channel: uzomad
Date: 2012-03-19

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium, discusses how Islamic scholars contributed  to the Islamic Golden Age and how over time  independent reasoning (ijthad) lost out to modern institutionalised imitation (taqleed) present in the wider islamic society today.