Islamic scientific advances?

Question

What great scientific advances have the Islamic Arab countries given to the world in the past 300 years? Or have these
countries become simplified due to the Islamic church, and the ideology if their Imams?

Answer 1

I guess you ask about last 300 years for a reason. Because you know that before that Islamic world was the center of enlightenment, progress and tolerance. While Christian world was stuck in dark ages. And the progress that was made by the western world since that was not because of Christianity but because we were able to free ourselves from its dogma.

Answer 2

thats what happens when religion is allowed to govern the country.....
it becomes stagnant of original thinking as dogma replaces it.
even causing the country to regress...

Answer 3

Dont hold your breath!

ANSWER: None. By comparison to all other cultures of the world, LESS THAN NONE.

WHAT THEY DIDNT INVENT:

The zero or numerals or any math

The Islamic genocide of Hindus is what brought the term "arabic numerals". Those numerals (and the zero) were invented by the hindus, but falsely attributed to "arabs".

Al Kharzimi merely recast the works of Greeks, Egyptians and Hindus although there is some belief he may have invented the concept of "logrythm"

Answer 4

Well, here's the funny thing. When Islam was at its peak, when the government in the mid-east was Islamic in nature, science was at its peak.. Islamic learning was its peak, as was mathematics, medicine, astronomy, art, philosophy, etc. It was when the Islamic government became stagnant, and the West began colonizing when learning and sciences fell.


http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/
http://www.netmuslims.com/info/contributions.html

Answer 5

wot about the flip flop and Ali Barber winkle pickers!

Answer 6

I wonder is scientific advances,help or hinder the busy, stressful
world we live in.

Answer 7

The devil keeps them from becoming civilized and making any scientific advances.

Answer 8

My dear friend, there are alot of things that Muslim scholars invented, the broader areas are archetecture, school and education system, Medicine, town and city planning.

Behold the 9th Century flying machine of Abbas ibn Firnas.

Examine al-Zahrawi’s surgical instruments that still exist in operating theatres today!

See al-Jazari’s water powered scribe clock brought back to life after 800 years.

Probably the most important discovery made by Jabir ibn Hayyan,find out what it has brought us.

Did you know that hospitals, as we know them today, were first established by early Muslims. They offered the best available medical service at that time and cared for all people free of charge. Muslims are honour-bound to provide treatment for the sick, whoever they may be.

The first organised hospital was built in Cairo in 872CE. The Ahmad ibn Tûlûn Hospital treated and gave free medicine to all patients. It provided separate bath houses for men and women, a rich library and a section for the insane.

See examples of the water raising machines that were developed by the Muslims 800 years ago.

Learn what techniques the Islamic world used 800 years ago to feed an area that stretched from Spain to the borders of China.

Explore the numerous land and sea trade routes that were travelled upon so frequently.

A major breakthrough in communications occurred in Baghdad under the ‘Abbasid Caliphs.
Carrier pigeons were used as a postal service. It is mentioned in a book that at one time there would be about 1,900 pigeons in the lofts of the citadel in Cairo, which was the communication nerve centre at the time.

Piri Re’is, a Turkish captain, created a map in 1513 which has come to be known as the famous ‘Map of America’.
This astonishing map clearly shows Antarctica, as well as the Andes Mountains of South America. Both of these were ‘first seen’ years after this map was created in 1513

Zheng He was a Muslim who helped transform China into the regional superpower of his time.
Within 28 years of travel, he visited 37 countries in the course of seven monumental sea voyagers. Zheng He sailed throughout the Indian Ocean decades before Christopher Columbus or Vasco de Gama and with ships five times bigger.

IN THE UNIVERSE
Since Islam began, the muezzin, or timekeeper for prayers, has called the faithful to prayer five times a day. Their daily prayers are astronomically determined by the sun’s position in the sky, so it was vital to exactly predict its motion at any location on earth.

Muslims also needed to know the direction of Mecca from every geographical location. This they did by observing the position of the sun and moon using new sophisticated instruments which they invented.

The Quran, the Muslims’ holy book, contains numerous revelations about the heavens and celestial objects, and invites people to explore them. From all these religious motivations, astronomy became a main concern for Muslim scholars 1000 years ago, and celestial objects. Their work formed the foundation of European astronomy.

Did you know the origin of the word astrolabe comes from the Arabic astrulab.
The instrument was fully developed and its uses expanded by Muslim astronomers. In the Muslim world, astrolabes remained popular until the 19th century.

Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly.
His first flight took place in 852 in Cordoba when he wrapped himself in a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts and jumped from the minaret of the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Though this attempt was unsuccessful, he continued working on improving his design.

Caliph al-Ma’mun, who ruled Baghdad from 813 to 833 CE, gave astronomy the patronage and impetus it needed to become a major science.
He built the first observatory in Islam, and arguably the first observatory in the world or in history.

Answer 9

Well there was the flying carpet...

Answer 10

None that I know of.