1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his 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 London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.
2 The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. www.1001inventions.com
2007-07-31 12:31:10 · 21 answers · asked by Knowing Gnostic 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let go of your hate people!
2007-07-31 12:49:36 · update #1
I think you answered your own question! For hundreds of years the Islamic community was way ahead of Europe in areas such as science. In fact I heard someone say that the European renaisance and rapid development in the 16th centuary owes much to the translation of texts long in the domain of the Islamic community.
2007-07-31 12:38:12 · answer #1 · answered by tman 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Also remember that Whilst catholics were burning heretics and burning university textbooks in the 'dark age' roughly 400-1000's, Muslims were preserving copies of texts from Plato and Aristotle and other Greaco-Roman thinkers as well as near eastern thought. We would not have access to those texts today if not for Islam, which revered them.
2007-07-31 17:13:38 · answer #2 · answered by Way 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a small respect, I agree with Monica... religions can't really take credit for the tangential things that were emitted by those nominally affiliated with the faith. To say that was true, you'd have to thank the Pope for the fact that Newton discovered gravity, and thank the chief rabbi of Jerusalem for Einstein's theory of general relativity.
I do credit Islam with one thing - the importance of simplicity. Christianity in the middle ages (and for some time after) was at risk of being too complex... it became a faith unable to explain itself to the layman. Islam's scholars realized the importance of being able to explain the faith in simple terms. It has really only been in the last couple of centuries that Christians began to explain their faith in easier terms, such as in C.S. Lewis' apologetics.
2007-07-31 12:39:43 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Islam teaches submission and respect for truth, so it has this effect back in turn. Many people are ready to want things from organizations and societies, even foreign countries, a true religious person is expected to show love not tollerance and be submissive not touchy.
Islam has a very rooted tradition in math, history and arts, without its presence love and facts would become corrupted and many people would feel life is harder on them, because they love and want to hear from Allah so much. This god is supposed to be an example not an allower.
2007-07-31 12:40:52 · answer #4 · answered by Manny 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ooh very interesting. Coffee from Ethiopia. I thought this was another hate filled question.
but I'm happy to say it is rather informative.
I would like it better if people kept their hostile and bigoted opinions to themselves.
:)
2007-07-31 12:54:43 · answer #5 · answered by Sameerah K 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its nice to see once in a while a post that isn't slating, degrading, mocking or just pure hating on islam and the muslims. God Bless!
2007-07-31 15:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by Missy S 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for sharing brother..... i've visited that site many times :)
Our Ummah (community) has given a lot to this world, despite popular opinion today...
I am so proud to be a Muslimah
Peace and Blessings,
Sakina
2007-07-31 12:46:55 · answer #7 · answered by Submission 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i think you should not talk about any believes in this world its very dangerous affair.
but i will answer you about your question:
i think the people when they want to discovered thing they succeed even without believe but always they should be with the god
god will make you discover
2007-07-31 13:29:20 · answer #8 · answered by killua 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 10th Century Muslim? Isn't tha like a 2nd Century BC Christian? In fact, Islam has done much to DESTROY the advances that pre Islamic Arabs made.
2007-07-31 12:38:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Any Christians mentioned on that website?
2007-07-31 12:50:18 · answer #10 · answered by Emerald Book Reviews 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋