What good things has Islam given to the west, to the modern world?

Answer 1

religions do not contribute any thing, it is the people who contribute and give to the modern world.

Answer 2

Well, Christians destroyed 95% of the Aztec population, so should I say that they only brought terror to west? No, although their track record isn't the best. People who have no knowledge about Islam sure do have the most to say. I'm not a Muslim, but I know that it's ignorant to look at Islam with an evil eye. What, should the Middle Eastern people be like the "modern world?" Materialistic and condescending?

Answer 3

In the past, the mohommedans helped advance art, literature, poetry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, science in general.... etc. I could got on but I suspect that most people know this already.

However, look at other civilisations. The ancient Greeks and Romans contributed more than almost anybody else, but where are they now? Their civilisations fell and much of their knowledge was lost. Now we have the ruins of their great cities, a few volumes of writings and museum pieces like Pompeii to show us just how they lived and what heights they scaled.

The mohommedan world followed the same pattern. They rose from the desert nomads of Arabia and created great cities and cultures. They contributed much to civilisation (as stated above) and then, like all civilisations, fell into decline.

no civilisation just disappears. The corpse remains and slowly decays back into the ground that gave it birth. The Greeks and Romans survived centuries past their great days. The Eastern Roman Empire eventually mutated (sort of) into the Holy Roman Empire which survived until the end of the 18th century.

This appears to be the same with the mohommedan empire. Little is left apart from the knowledge and the archictectural memorials to their greatness. The remains, articulated by reflex actions are slowly dying away in the light of the reality of the modern scientific world. They, like others before them look back to their days of greatness but see no real future ahead.

As Shelley once said of another long dead civilisation:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works ye mighty, and despair".

Answer 4

Well, quite a lot really.

If you are thinking of the materialistic things like science, then read for yourself in the link below. Apart from Al-kindi, most of the famous muslims were not arabs, just muslims from different backgrounds and races.

eg.
Sir William Harvey is wrongly credited with the modern theory of Pulmonary Circulation. Ibn Al-Naphis, an Arab physician of the 13th Century, explained the basic principles of Pulmonary Circulation nearly 350 years before Harvey was born.

Answer 5

All classical learning-Greeks -Rome and more but the most important the Muslim university's created on there peak-800-1000 was the idea of a symbol for nothing.the number zero.(all the numbers we still write in Arabic 2 and 5 etc)
At first it was of the devil the popes said.when we don't grasp,usually we say NO and condemn,but the new took it all and if we hadn't got the zero there couldn't be any kind of math so w wouldn't have computers ones and zeros all the way.so we talking this over is a Little fetched even this from Islam.

Answer 6

Look for the following names:

Al-Battani
Al-Khwarizmi
Al-Farabi
Al-Ghazzali
Al-Kindi
Ibn-al-Haytham
Ibn-Bajjah
Ibn-Rushd
Ibn-Khaldun
Ibn-Sina

All of these (and many others) contributed to many of today's accepted fields like science, mathematics, medicine and architecture. It has also been documented and can be readily verified by today's Western historians that when Europe was going through the middle ages the Arab nations kept the flame of knowledge alive, improved upon it and in many cases were responsible for the very existence of that knowledge in the first place.

Answer 7

Well, back in the Middle Ages, the Middle East was waaaaaaay ahead of Europe, especially in terms of medicine. Granted the West has outstripped the Middle East today, but we do need to acknowledge history. And I went to college with some pretty cool Muslims, so I'm grateful for that.

Answer 8

Hygeine and Quran. Did you know that back in medievil England the Queen only had bath once a year and im not trying to insult anyone by saying this im just stating facts, check it out for yourself.(so imagine the normal citizens if this was the queen!) Also life is to short to be ignorant find out the truth about islam visit www.share islam.com then go to islam videos very good website!

Answer 9

Ask Pop Penedict the 6-teenth

Answer 10

every good thing they have adopted from Islam and unfortunately the Muslims have left those good things. like honesty, straight forwardness, democracy, rights to women, kids, servents, slaves etc. and over and all the idea of welfare society which now europe and other advanced countries are adopting is the first develop by islam.
but again unfortunately no muslim country or muslim follwoing these good things.

Answer 11

Our numeric system. All the lost ancient works of Greece and Rome when they were destroyed. Europe had the Dark Ages, the Arabic world continued on as if nothing had happened. They had writting, mathematics, and science, while monks in Europe were the only ones who could read and write.