Yes, let's imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?
Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:
- Coffee
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Cameras
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Experimental Physics
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Chess
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Soap
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Shampoo
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Perfume/spirits
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Irrigation
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Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
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Combination locks
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Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals
adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose
windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
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Surgical instruments
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Anesthesia
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Windmill
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Treatment of Cowpox
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Fountain pen
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Numbering system
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Algebra/Trigonometry
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Modern Cryptology
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3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
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Crystal glasses
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Carpets
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Checks
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Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs & kitchen
- University
- Optics
- Music
- Toothbrush
- Hospitals
- Bathing
- Quilting
- Mariner’s Compass
- Soft drinks
- Pendulum
- Braille
- Cosmetics
- Plastic surgery
- Calligraphy
- Manufacturing of paper and cloth
-- It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays & so invented a camera from this discovery
-- It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit
-- It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry.
He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation,
purification, oxidation, evaporation & filtration. He also discovered
sulfuric & nitric acid
-- It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics
-- It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle
-- It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today
-- It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner & Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey.
-- It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci & the rest.
-- It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.
The list goes on………..
