NO IT WAS NOT. Islam is, and always has been more steeped in the blood letting of who they identify as "infidels" than in the pursuit of art, music, or philosophical thought.
They were barbarians then and those who remain to this day still stink due to a total lack of or interest in, the practice of personal hygiene of the most basic kind.
Muslims smell, steal, lie. cheat, and teach their young to do the same. They survive at the very lowest level of society and will never improve their station in life.
They are the scum of modern society.
There is no Islamic Empire.
The title of the Islamic Empire was Caliphate. The Caliph was called Amir-ul-Momineen.
It depends on the Islamic Empire in question. Assuming that you are talking about the Abbassid Caliphate (which is most commonly referred to as "the Islamic Empire"), the group that brought them down was the MONGOLS.
In 1492 the Islamic Empire finally left Spain but i dont know when it began.
Yes. The Mughal Empire was a great Empire of the Muslims in India.
For the same reason that most people are knighted; for service to the British Empire either culturally, militarily or internationally. In his case, it was culturally.
Different in different parts of the empire.
Ottoman Empire
The Abbasids, as the ones from the Islamic Empire.
Invasions by the Islamic Ottoman Empire destroyed the Byzantine Empire.
yes
By forming Islamic armies, conquering non-Islamic countries, and making them into Islamic countries. Simple.