What Islam did for us 2?

Question

3 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 it 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.

4 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

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.
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Answer 1

I think these Muslims should be on the school curriculum. In Islamic schools especially so children can look up to someone. Rather than look at the young angry Muslims that apparently exist in modern Britain. I haven't met an lately.

Someone should re-educate the young kids who are being taught by the narrow- minded imams who preach hypocrisy and put Islam to shame.

Radical Islamists the media so frequently mention in the news are few and misguided. The youngsters should have their own families and communities to re-educate. Because this is not taught at home and Muslim parents should be well aware.

If you feel so strongly about Islamophobia maybe you should go on TV or something like youtube to have your voice heard.

Personally I think this is excellent, but there are people here who will make negative comments and will hurt muslims, because if there is a group of bad people who are muslims and have done bad the whole Islamic Community has to get tarred with the same brush.

Answer 2

It is true that during the middle-ages, Arab civilization was the most advanced in that part of the world.
It is too bad that they lapsed after the 12th century, when religious extremists took over and stifled progress.

Satanist Liberation Front is correct in pointing out maintaining greek philosophy and algebra as more significant.

Answer 3

Didn't chess came before Islam? And don't some Muslim scholars consider it Haram?

Also... don't forget Zakarya Razi... Avicenna... Balkhi... Abureihan Biruni... Farabi... Kharazmi... Toosi... and others :)

Answer 4

What has a person's intelligence to do with religion? If Islam created Intelligent people why is it that 42% of Noble Prizes are held by the Jews and not muslims? What are you trying to say?

Answer 5

God bless the muslims for saving us from taufl.

You know, the norse version of chess.

So the muslims gave us boardgames and airplane crashes. Wow, I feel so benefitted.

How about innovations in architecture or maintaining and developing Greek lines of philosophy? Algebra? Maybe those might be more striking.

Just saying.

Lazarus

Answer 6

thankx for pointing out some of the great inventions of muslims

Answer 7

Indeed the Islamic empire kept alive the Greek and Roman traditions of thought and discovery, during both the DArk and the Middle ages. If it weren't for them. There still might not be white people here in America.

Answer 8

So of Muslims' Contributions to Science.

MEDICINE
Development of psychotherapy and other therapeutic methods.
Research work on smallpox and measles.
Production of medical treatment and medical drugs.
Extensive research on properties of scores of drugs.
Distinguished mediastinitis from pleurisy.
Recognized the contagious nature of disease and ability of disease to spread to water and soil.
Discover the existence of blood capillaries.
Use and discussion of animal psychology and physiology.
Constructed magnificent, well organized, and well equipped hospitals that, at that time, were unrivaled in the world and whose doors were open for all the public.
Provided the first detailed study of the human eye.

CHEMISTRY
&
PHARMACY
Discovered the use of chemistry for medical purposes.
Establishment of the first apothecary shop.
Production of the first pharmacopeadia.
The first to discover and identify three chief acids : nitric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric.
Discovered the arts of distillation, crystallization, and oxidation.
Classified substances into mineral, vegetable, and animal origin.

PHYSICS
Discovered principle of inertia.
Used and implemented experimental physics.
Used hydrostatic balance.
Discussed phenomena of the expansion of flat objects.
Transformed the study of optics.
Provided the first optical study of the eye ball.
Discovered the reflection of light in the anatomy of the eye and the the formation of image in the retina.

MATHEMATICS
Introduced Arabic numerals on basis of Indian numbers.

(Actually the numbers used in the west are originally Arabic numbers that were used to replace the roman numerals).
Discovered fractions.
Invented logarithms.
Invented the science of Algebra. (Algebra is an Arabic word meaning binding together).
Revived the science of trigonometry and discovered the laws of sine's and cosine's.
Related geometry with algebra and sought geometric solutions for Algebraic problems.

GEOGRAPHY & ASTRONOMY
Muslim geographers contributed their works on physical, mathematical, topographical, regional, human, historical, descriptive, and specific geography
They considered the earth as spherical in shape, divided into two equal parts the equator, and having 360 degrees of circumference, with 90 degrees from the equator to each pole.

(which is the modern geographical view of the earth)
Established, correctly, the circumference of the earth.
Measured the length of the earth and terrestrial degrees.
Devised latitudinal and longitudinal tables for places throughout the world.
Made detailed study of solar and lunar eclipses and contributed major works on astronomy.

Answer 9

yeah most stuff arabs and muslims invented them
but in the school history books and all they say europeans invented everything
i mean uk school history books and irish

Answer 10

this is what people call -where thinking stops disaster starts!