The Golden Age was the peak of intellectual creativity. It produced famous figures like Ibn Sina, Al-Khwarizmi and Ibn al-Haytham. But the most important question is not what they achieved, but how Muslim societies could produce so many innovators in the first place. Creativity rarely emerges from isolated geniuses. We all have the capacity to learn, create and innovate, but the conditions must be right. This is through society establishing institutions, incentives and a shared value system which produces talented people. This article looks at religiously driven knowledge production in the Abbasid Golden Age, and how it fuelled creativity.