Its one of the best times of the month everyone! Time to crown the Best Answers, and announce the November Awardees!

In a nail biting finish, the "Flairs' Choice Award" went to /u/frogbrooks for writing about How was education during the middle ages in the Muslim world?

For the "Users' Choice Award", the great minds of the community went with /u/Sankon with their answer to During the Early Modern period, contacts between Europe and Asia multiplied. How was European art received by Asian critics?

After close consideration, the "Dark Horse Award" goes to /u/gamegyro56 for Al-Ma'arri was an arab philosopher from the golden age of Islam who became an atheist and published several books criticising religion. Was, if any, was the impact on his work?

For this month's 'Greatest Question', voted on by the mods, goes to /u/Southdelhiboi for The idea of locking up evil in the attic in your own home instead of an asylum is fascinating. But what began this idea, does it have a real life inspiration? Currently has no answer, alas, but perhaps we’ll get lucky in the future!

Finally, we come to Novembers "Excellence in Flairdom Award"! Putting incredible amounts of work into great answers, a friendly and engaged face within the flair community, not to mention frequent showings in the many META threads we get, means a well deserved congratulations to /u/Dongzhou3kingdoms!

As always, congrats to our very worthy winners, and thank you to everyone else who has contributed here, whether with thought-provoking questions or fascinating answers. And if this month you want to flag some stand-out posts that you read here for potential nomination, don't forget to post them in our Sunday Digest!

For a list of past winners, check them out here!