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Imagine a world without Muslims
You wouldn't have:
Coffee, cameras, experimental physics, chess, soap, shampoo, perfume, spirit, irrigation, crank shaft, IC engines, valves, pistons, combination locks, Architectural innovation, surgical instruments anesthesia, windmill... (1/7)
You wouldn't have:
Coffee, cameras, experimental physics, chess, soap, shampoo, perfume, spirit, irrigation, crank shaft, IC engines, valves, pistons, combination locks, Architectural innovation, surgical instruments anesthesia, windmill... (1/7)
treatment of cowpox, fountain pens, numbering system, algebra, modern cryptology, the concept of 3 course meal, crystal glasses, carpets, checks, garden used for beautification and meditation instead of herbs and kitchen, university, optics, music, toothbrush, hospitals... (2/7)
bathing, quilting, mariner's compass, soft drinks, pendulum, Braille, cosmetics, plastic surgery, calligraphy, manufacturing of paper and clothes, BIRYANI & the list goes on.
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•It was a Muslim who realised that light enters our eyes unlike Greeks who thought tht we emitted rays and so invented a camera out of this discovery
•Jabir Ibn e Hayyan was the founder of modern chemistry, he transformed alchemy into chemistry... (4/7)
•Jabir Ibn e Hayyan was the founder of modern chemistry, he transformed alchemy into chemistry... (4/7)
discovered distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation and filtration, also discovered nitric & sulfuric acid.
•Al jazari is k/a father of robotics
•it was a Muslim who was the architect of Henry V's castle
•it was a Muslim who used hollow needles to suck cataract (5/7)
•Al jazari is k/a father of robotics
•it was a Muslim who was the architect of Henry V's castle
•it was a Muslim who used hollow needles to suck cataract (5/7)
•The West brought the cowpox cure from turkey (I first heard of Edward Jenner from my 8th biology textbook – a name to memorise along with the other famous scientists who made discoveries. Many years later I came across this name again.... (6/7)
but I learnt of a few details that weren’t mentioned in my textbook. It seemed that when, in 1798, Edward Jenner first described the vaccine for smallpox, people in the Ottoman Empire had already been doing something similar for at least a hundred years.)
The list is huge (7/7)
The list is huge (7/7)
