It is 791 CE, and the Abbasid Caliphate is at the height of its power, stretching from India to North Africa.

此时是公元 791 年，阿拔斯王朝正处鼎盛时期，从印度一直延伸到北非。

Dear Science and Religion, You’re supposed to be so irreconcilable and everything, but not so much in the Abbasid Empire.

亲爱的科学和宗教，你们应该如此不可调和，但在阿拔斯帝国却不是这样。

The Abbasid family capitalized on these sentiments, promoting themselves as more direct descendants of the prophet, though their actual relation to Muhammad was more tenuous than they claimed.

阿拔斯家族利用这些情绪，将自己宣传为先知的直系后裔， 尽管他们与穆罕默德的实际关系比他们声称的要脆弱。

This golden age would not last long, and by the 11th century, the empire was in trouble again. The more warlike Seljuk Turks overran the enlightened Muslim Abbasid Caliphate.

这个黄金时代并没有持续多久， 到了11世纪， 帝国再次陷入困境。好战的塞尔柱突厥人占领了开明的穆斯林阿拔斯王朝哈里发国。

Under Abbasid rule, the elite enjoyed a lifestyle of luxury, thanks to extensive trade networks that brought both products and people from all over the known world to Baghdad.

在阿拔斯王朝的统治下，精英们享受着奢侈的生活方式，这要归功于广泛的贸易网络​​将来自世界各地的产品和人员带到巴格达。

Broadly speaking, the Third Crusade was a European response to the emergence of a new Islamic power, neither Turkish nor Abbasid: the Egyptian (although he was really a Kurd) Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir Salah ed-Din Yusuf, better known to the west as Saladin.

从广义上讲，第三次十字军东征是欧洲对新的伊斯兰力量的出现的回应， 既不是土耳其人也不是阿拔斯人：埃及人（尽管他实际上是库尔德人）苏丹 al-Malik al-Nasir Salah ed-Din Yusuf， 更为人所知的是西方为萨拉丁。