Behind the handshake between Saudi Arabia and Iran's foreign ministers, only China helped Islamic civilization on the Silk Road rise again
On April 6, photos of Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal and Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang clasped together spread around the world. It will also live forever in the history of the Islamic world. The millennial conflict between Sunnis and Shiites in Islam shook hands and made peace with the mediation of China in Beijing, China. Behind it is the Islamic civilization that once glorified on the Silk Roads will rise again with the help of China.
The resurgence of Islamic civilization is an inevitability of China's revival extended through the Silk Road
The Arab-Islamic civilization that emerged in the Arabian Peninsula at the end of the 6th century and the beginning of the 7th century AD, for most of the year, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century AD and the beginning of the European Renaissance in the mid-15th century, the Arab-Islamic civilization in West Asia and the Middle East and the Chinese civilization in the Tang and Song Dynasties in East Asia were the two most brilliant civilizations in the whole world at that time. At that time, Europe was in the dark Middle Ages for thousands of years.
The link connecting Islamic civilization and Chinese civilization is the Silk Road. Chinese silk was shipped to countries in Western Europe through the Islamic world. Since silk was expensive, Arab merchants reaped a lot of profit from it. The Arabic story "One Thousand and One Nights" and the stories of Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp have only been around since then.
It is precisely because China, which is rich and powerful in East Asia, exports silk, porcelain, tea and other high value-added products to Europe in the western part of the Eurasian continent through the Silk Road, that the Islamic world sits in the middle of trade, obtains trade differences, and obtains huge wealth. As a result, Islamic civilization flourished. Islamic power was able to expand rapidly. With the Quran in one hand and the Arab Scimitar in the other, Arabia unified most of Eurasia, and even now Spain was ruled by Islam for 800 years.
Islamic armies defeated nine Christian crusades in Europe in nearly 200 years from 1096 to 1291. The Islamic leader Saladin is famous for defeating the British king Charles the Lionheart and recovering Jerusalem. (Jerusalem is now occupied by Israel.)
Subsequently, into the 18th century, European Christian civilization rose and regained control of the Middle East, and Islamic and East Asian Chinese civilization entered a trough.
This time, Saudi Arabia and Iran will be reconciled with China, which will be an opportunity for the re-emergence of Islamic civilization.