Why has the world ignored this?

Question

Islam contributed so much, but gets no credit. Why is this?

Arab contributions to human civilization are noteworthy. In mathematics, they write digits from right to left and they were the first people to introduce the Zero that allowed major mathematical breakthroughs. Al-khawarzmi was the first to solve algebra equations of the 1st and the 2nd degree. Also, Al-karaki developed an approximate method of finding square roots, theory of indices, theory of mathematical induction, and theory of intermediate quadratic equations. On the other hand, Nasseredine Al-Tusi separated trigonometry from astronomy which recognizes and explains weakness in Euclid’s theory of parallels. As a result, he was the founder of non-Euclidian geometry. In astronomy, they used to chart time of sunrises and sunsets to determine the period of fasting during Ramadan and they were able to determine the length of degree, to establish the longitude and latitude, to investigate the speed of sound and light.

Moreover, Al-Biruni discussed the possibility of earth rotation on its axis which was proven six-centuries later by Galileo. Also, El-Fezari and Fargai developed the magnetic compass and the charting of zodiac.

In addition, their contribution to medicine is undeniable since they are the first to realize that there are contagious diseases and AL-Razi was the 1st to diagnose smallpox and introduced its remedies as mercurial ointment and animal gut. Also, Ibn-Sina introduced the relationship between some diseases and one’s mental health and that some illnesses are psychotherapists, whereas Ibn-el-Nafis discovered the fundamental principles of pulmonary circulation. Also, Arabs are the one who used Herbal medicines.

Answer 1

Gee that's wonderful. Perhaps the world ignores all these accomplishments because of all thier more recent contributions to mankind...
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1981 Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul the Second
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Marine Barracks, Beirut, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hezbollah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homicidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discotheque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1990 A Muslim Named El Sayyid Nosair Murders Israeli Political activist Meir Kahane. Nov 1990
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994: A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. It is later discovered that Ramzi Yousef planted a bomb on the aircraft to test a bomb for his terrorist plot.December 11, 1994
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1994 A Muslim Named Rashid Baz shoots at a van filled with Hasidic boys, on the Brooklyn bridge murdering one of them. FBI calls it "Road Rage". March 1, 1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionaries Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 At Empire State Building; Ali Abu Kamal shoots at tourists, kills one and wounds six before killing himself, Mayor Giuliani informs the public "he had many enemies in his mind".Feb 24,1997
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Egypt Air flight 990's co-pilot crashes plane killing all 217 people on board, officials post no link to terrorism, even though the co-pilot is heard on black box tape exclaiming "I rely on Allah" 11 times as he crashed the plane.- Oct 1999
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked,17 U.S.Navy sailors were murdered and 39 others were injured- October
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 1000's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered

2002 Los Angeles Airport; Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet shoots and kills 2 people, FBI begrudgingly admits this as a terrorist act after evidence reveals it to be. July 4, 2002
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad & Lee Malvo;converts to Islam,goes on a shooting spree killing 10 people.Oct 2002
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Russian concert bombing
2003 Mohahammad Ali Alayed Slashes the Throat of friend Ariel Sellouk (a jew) Alayed had broken off his friendship with Sellouk after he became a "more devout follower of Islam".Aug 2003
2003 Philippines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
2004 American contractors burned alive, dismembered, strung up on bridge
2004 Beheading of private US citizen Nick Berg
2004 Beheading of private US citizen Paul Johnson
2004 Beslan:Take over of Russian school.350+ dead,500+ injured.many are babies & small children Sep 5 2004
2004 Madrid Bombing. 200 Dead
2004 Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, brutally murdered by an angry Muslim on the streets of Amsterdam, he created the 10-minute movie Submission. The movie deals with the topic of violence against women in Islamic societies; telling the stories of four abused Muslim women.
2004 The Khobar assault; militants dressed in military-style uniforms opened
fire inside two oil industry office compounds, then moved to an upscale
residential area. They took 45 to 60 hostages.Twenty-two people were killed in the 25-hour rampage, almost all of them foreigners, including one American.
2005 London Bombing. 56 Dead
2005 Bali 25 Killed, 100 Wounded in Bali Explosions
2005 NALCHIK, Russia. Scores of Islamic militants killed at least 108 people.
2005 Iraq Insurgents Kill U.S. Hostage Ronald Schulz,40, an industrial electrician from Alaska
2006 a 22 year-old Iranian student named Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drives his SUV onto the campus of the University of North Carolina deliberately trying to kill people and succeeding in
injuring nine. After the incident, he seemed singularly pleased with himself, smiling and waving to crowds after a court appearance on Monday, at which he explained that he was “thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah.”
2006 JAMMU, India - Islamic militants raided a village in Indian-controlled &killed 22 Hindus, lining them outside their homes and shooting them execution-style
2006 2 Somalis killed Radical Islamic militia fighters for watching World Cup-07-05
2006-July 11 INDIA- bombings of Bombay's rail network that killed at least 207 people and injured more than 700 others.
2006-July Naveed Afzal Haq,murdered one woman and wounded five during his shooting rampage at the Seattle Jewish Federation.
2007- Feb. Sulejman Talovic entered a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, murdered five and wounded four unsuspecting shoppers before being killed by an off-duty police officer.

Answer 2

I do not agree with the answerer who feel that the credit of all the inventions should go to the Muslims because they seem to have forgotten the history. Before the advent of present day Islam or before Allah (swt) sent the Holy Quran the Arabs were a blot on the name of Humanity. The same people after advent of the present day Islam and taking cue from the Holy Quran started searching for the truth and could make all the above and many more inventions. So I think credit going to Islam is justified.
World is controlled by the media now and the media is controlled by the Zionists. This is the reason the world has ignored the Islamic contribution to Science and Literature.

Answer 3

I think that some people still misunderstand Islam. The media portrays Muslims as extremeists. This isn't the case. Yes, there are those that are not good representatives of the faith, but there are the same in EVERY faith. For example, the KKK is to Christianity as Muslim exremeists are to Islam. The Klan members are not fair representatives of the Christian faith. I think people have given Islam a bad name. However, the accomplishments that you have listed should be given to the individuals rather than the entire religion. I am a Christian. I wouldn't feel right given Christianity the credit for things that people did if they happen to be Christian. That is their faith, but just because they are that faith doesn't mean that faith made them accomplish said thing. The world doesn't ignore it, but the world gives credit to the individual rather than the religion.

Answer 4

You are right, Al-Khawarizmi flourished under thepatronage of the Caliph al-ma'mun. He excelled in math, astronomy, geography, and geometry. he was the first to use algebraic terms as well as to solve quadratic equations. Algebra was at term used by khawarizmi to find solutions for equations. The muslim scientist also introduced the Indian system of numerals into written arabic. some of his major works were "The science of Algebra and Equations", "Astrolabe's operations", and 'Rasm Al Ma'mour Min Al Bilad" which includes latitudes and longitudes of over 2,400 localities and cities. he also performed astronomical calculations covering eclipses and the true positions of the sun, moon and planets.
also Jaber bin hayyan transgressed these science by intoducing a new approach.
Ibn Al-Haytham: he was the first to furnish a scientific explanation for an eclipse and rainbow.
ibn Al-jazarry: He spent a significant portion of his life inventing mobile and hydraulic machines.

Regards,

Answer 5

I think that the reason why people forget these Arab contributions to science and math is because after the Mongol sacking and partial destruction of Baghdad in 1258, Islamic civilization declined.

By the way, it is a little known fact that these very same Arab scholars carried on the academic excellence and tradition of the Greek Byzantine culture. But just as the west forgot the contribution of Arab scholars to its current state of learning, likewise the Islamic world has forgotten the Greek Byzantine influence which fostered its academic learning.

Just goes to show that the world has always been interdependent and that we all need to remember our history.

Answer 6

I know the mathematical part is not ignored, because I heard it when I was in school, and I'm not a mathematician by any stretch of imagination. And other scientific things that you mentioned, especially astronomy, I had heard, too. Westerners do not tend to recall the names of specific inventors or discoverers when the names are so very unfamiliar, but they are told that these people were Arabs.

However, there is a great deal of difference in saying that this huge religion is responsible for various scientific advances. That's like saying the Catholics discovered or invented all the things that European or American ("western world") scientists did. It was not their religion that did it: it was individual men and women who did it.

Answer 7

Alot pf people are saying the credit goes to the Arabs & not Islam but if you watch this documentary, you will see that the credit does go to Islam.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-768956312207897325&q=when+the+moors+rules+europe&hl=en


The forgotten history of Islam that was left out of the history books, WHY? Simply because the world refuses to accept that Islam was the founder of 70% of inventions that make the world civilised today.
Jewish people also played a huge part in civilisation but its the christians who want recognition for so many things that they dont deserve recognition for.

http://www.1001inventions.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.viewSection&intSectionID=309

Muslims & Jews are the richest people in the world, Without them the world would be at a total loss.

This may offend many people but it is the truth.

The worlds civilisation & riches come from muslims & jews. You can argue & say I'm wrong but if you research you will see it is the truth.

Answer 8

No doubt about what you said !
(Middle East Past is a major contributor to Current civilization)

But you miss one very obvious question : Why Not in the Recent Past & Present ???

I read some stories about Real Muslims trying to promote science in islamic countries but they are kind of Galileo's of Islamic world

Try it for yourself

Peace be with you

Answer 9

I am a Christian and am obviously opposed to Islam as a religion in that it denies the divinity of Christ (and for other issues). I do however think that you are correct in saying that noteworthy advancements have come out of Islamic nations from Islamic peoples. The contributions you speak of (and more) are indeed noteworthy.

Answer 10

THis is more of a Arabic contribution than Islam. I do not think this was contributed from any angle that was driven by religion. It was more by the inquisitive and intelligent people.
I think these contributions would have still been there if there was no Islam.
AFA Islam is concerned, there is lot of contribution to the world that can be boasted about, like terrorism, fundamentalism, war, fights, killing in most gruesome way... list is endless.... CERTAINLY not Algebra, nonEuclidean geometry....

Answer 11

What is the official name of numerals that majority of us use ( 1 2 3 4......) in Microsoft Office and elsewhere. they call it 'Arabic Numerals' world wide. Arabs devoloped it and Romans were using I II III IV System.........Recognitions not ignored.!!