muslim scientists & their inventions. part 1 science in the muslim world
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Muslim Scientists
& their
inventions
Part 1
Science in the
Muslim World
The Islamic Golden Age(between 7th - 16th centuries)
Muslim scholars made significant advances in ……
Science Mathematics Medicine Astronomy Engineering
And many other fields
The Islamic Golden Age(between 7th - 16th CE)
Islamic science is the foundation of
Modern Science
ArabicA lingua franca of
that period
Early Muslim Conquests
Knowledge & skills of ancient Middle East, Greece, Persia & India was inherited
Islamic Foundations of Institutions
Public Hospitals
Psychiatric hospitals
The Public Library & Lending Library
Academic Degree-Granting
University
University of Al Karaouine Fez, Morocco
Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
founded -10th century
Astronomical Observatory as
a Research Institute
THE TRUST (WAQF)Quba mosque in Medinah built upon the Prophet’s (pbuh) arrival in 622 CE
World's Most Sophisticated Hospitals
Johns Hopkins Hospital Maryland, USA
Mayo Clinic: USA
Bimaristan Medical University Hospital
Baghdad 9th century
The Earliest Hospitals
Damascus, 706 CEby Ummayad Caliph Al-Walid
Aleppo - Syria
Bimaristan An-Nuri
Damascus
Where was Europe? (between 500 & 1000 CE)
The Dark Ages
Medical treatment for the insane
Al-Mansouri HospitalsCairo- 1285
Al H
assa
n Ib
n Al
Hay
tham
Father of Modern Optics
Camera From the Arab word Qamara For a dark or private room
"….for more than a 1000 yrs. there was not a scientific man of note except in Arabia” Oliver Joseph Lodge
The World is Flat!
MasterAstronomer
Muslim Polymaths
Or "Universal Geniuses"Hakeems
The first to publish a detailed description of smallpox and measles.Physician
Philosophy
Avenzoar
Pioneer ofExperimentalsurgery
Ibn Al-Nafis
Discoverer of
BloodCirculation
Inventor of The
injection syringe
Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili
Mathematics
Pioneer Of Algebra
& Algorithms
Jamshid Kashani
The Decimal Point
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Pioneer of chemistry &perfumery
Geber
(Jabir ibn Hayyan)
Al Kindi / Alkindus
Father of perfume industry
Snell's law or Sahl’s ?
Ibn Sahl
IBN SINA / AVICENNA
Their qualities
“ Alif Lam Ra. This is a Book We have sent down to you so that you can bring mankind from the darkness to the light, by the permission of their Lord, to the Path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy.” (Surah Ibrahim14: Verse1)