What do Algebra, Chemistry and spectacles have in common? Give up? Well as a matter of fact they were all invented in the Muslim world loooong before the Europeans even knew what they were! I’m sure you didn’t know that?! Well neither do most Muslims let alone non-Muslims. So how come Islam today is seen as some backward religion that wants to take us back to the days of the camels! Come see how and why we were the leaders of the world and how we can lead the world again… Click on image for more details
Monday 22 February 2010
1001 Inventions of Islamic History
What do Algebra, Chemistry and spectacles have in common? Give up? Well as a matter of fact they were all invented in the Muslim world loooong before the Europeans even knew what they were! I’m sure you didn’t know that?! Well neither do most Muslims let alone non-Muslims. So how come Islam today is seen as some backward religion that wants to take us back to the days of the camels! Come see how and why we were the leaders of the world and how we can lead the world again… Click on image for more details
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John William Draper in the "Intellectual Development of Europe"
"I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe."
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