Did you know some of your favorite things you enjoy were invented by muslims?

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10 Greatest Inventions by Muslims
1. Coffee

The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia , when he noticed hi s animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London . The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.

2. Chess

A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia . From there i t spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan . The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot.

3. Parachute

A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed

on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

4. Shampoo

Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

5. Metal Armor

Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China . But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation - so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland .

6. Surgery

Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

7. Soup

Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal - soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses

8. Pay Cheques

The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad .

9. Rocket and Torpedo

Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a "self-moving and combusting egg", and a torpedo - a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.

10. Windmill

The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the va st deserts of Arabia , when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe .

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Answer 1

Wouldn't it be just wonderful when the day arrives that we can all be one under God and work together to make this world a "better place" - a reality ? !!!

Answer 2

Yes I knew that. Don't forget also to mention algebra, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, map making. All these branches of science were developed by muslim scientist centuries ago.
It would also be interesting to understand how the science forward jump brought by Islam has stopped and turned instead into medieval obscurantism.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Yes Muslims are behind many major discoveries that covered philosophy, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and much more. These studies were used in Europe for six centuries. The problem is that noone acknowledges Muslims for their inventions anymore. In fact, there was a Muslim scholar, Ibn Al Nafis, who discovered pulmonary circulation. William Harvey, an English medical doctor, shall we say stole it. It is always terrorist this and terrorist that. Thank you for your interest and recognition. God bless you. Take care.

Answer 5

Don’t like coffee
Chess was modified by them but invented by hindus regardless don’t enjoy chess
Parachute don’t use it so don’t enjoy it
All shampoo’s are bad for your hair they have this chemical in them that is really bad for your hair all shampoo’s in the market do
Don’t need metal armor and don’t enjoy it I am a peaceful person my goal is not to convert everyone to my own religion.
Surgery the instruments were made for torture
Don’t like soup
Pay cheques are useless it’s all about Debit card or credit card transactions.
Rockets were not invented by them
Windmil are just creepy

Haha i knw i will be getting hate mail... but hope some of you find the humor

Answer 6

Yes - it is sad when you see how glorious their civilisation was, once. It's gone downhill ever since.
Not being nasty, but civilisations come and go. The Romans gave us much, as did the Chinese. Now it is the West's turn. Life is a cycle.

Answer 7

Wherever you got that list of baloney, you should know that you are attempting to pass off false information. You must think you can impress us into believing that Islam is the true religion because some Muslims are inventors. Muslims are stupid, backward, fanatics....just like all the other flawed, man-made religions. The only modern-day invention related to Muslims is the suicide bomb belt....wow, how ingenious!

Answer 8

hey india invented the concept of ZERO without which no mathematical calculation wud have been possible.....i dont how much of ur list is true, but as sum1 mentioned above, every race has contributed, so wots the meaning of this question? i think we shud stop living in d past and start living in the present.

Answer 9

It wouldn't matter if they were created by aliens! I appreciate all the inventions made by muslims but I don't see the need for the separation of the creativity of inventive cultures.
When we were all running around naked after God threw Adam and Eve out of the garden, they started inventing things! and every race known to God and man has had their share of inventions, so we have EACH OTHER to thank for making all our lives easier! (Bill Gates created the computer)

Answer 10

That's all pretty cool. They also invented algebra and the concept of zero, as well as alchemy, the ancestor of chemistry.
Not sure about the first gunpowder weapons though - I believe Koreans had a rocket-launching device before the Arabs.