10 Muslim Inventions

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- that shaped the modern world.

1. Surgery

Celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi can be said to be the father of modern day surgery. Many modern day apparatus and procedures used in surgery can be traced back to him. He was the first person to use catgut for stiches, as the using of catgut eliminates the need for a second surgery to remove stiches. Many of his other groundbreaking procedures in surgery include the usage of forceps during childbirth, local anesthesia before surgeries and performing the first caesarean operation.

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2. Coffee

Coffee was first brewed in Yemen over a thousand years ago. Worshipers used to drink this brew to stay awake in the night for worship. By the 16th century, coffee found its way to Europe, when it was brought to Italy by a Venetian trader.

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3. Flying machine

Abbas ibn Firnas is said to be the first person to make a real attempt to construct a machine that will help him fly. During the 9th century, he designed a winged apparatus that resembled a bird costume. When he attempted to use his invention in the city of Cordoba, he flew for a few moments before falling and partially breaking his back. Many believe that this was an inspiration for Leonardo Da Vinci centuries later.

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4. University

Also in the 9th century, a princess, Fatima Al-Firhi, founded the first degree-granting university in the city of Fez in Morocco. Known as the University of al-Qarawiyyin, this center of education operates to this very day.

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5. Algebra

The founding of the concept of algebra is attributed to celebrated mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi. The word algebra is said to derive from “Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala” which roughly translates as “The Book of Reasoning and Balancing.” Al-Khwarizmi was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.

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6. Optics

Over a thousand years ago, the physicist Ibn Al Haitham is said to have proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off objects and entering the eye. Dismissing the common perception that light was emitted from the eye itself. The camera obscura phenomenon is also discovered by Ibn Al Haitham, which deduces how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.


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7. Music

Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor used to try to compete with the music of Baghdad and Cordoba. Modern musical scales are believed to have been derived by the Arabic alphabet. Among the many instruments of Middle Eastern origin that were used in Europe are the lute and the rahab – an ancestor to the violin.

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8. Toothbrush

For cleaning the teeth the usage of a twig from the Miswak tree is attributed to Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). Tis twig cleanses the teeth and freshens the breath. Substances similar to the Meswak are used in the modern toothpaste.


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9. The crank

Modern automatics had a profound impact from the Muslim world. The revolutionary crank-connecting rod system was discovered by Al Jazari in the 12th century. The concept created waves across the world and lead to numerous inventions such as the bicycle and internal combustion engine to name a few.

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10. Hospitals

The first medical center was in Egypt. Founded in the 9thcentury in the city of Cairo, it was called the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital. The medical center provided free care for anyone who needed it, which is a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. Eventually this concept of the hospital spread across the Muslim world.

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maestro

Cultural revolution
Hospitals, Surgery, Crank, Music are ancient and even prehistoric. Muslims did not invent it.

Coffee was invented in Ethiopia not Yemen. Stop your Arab revisionism.


The rest I don't know but I'm sure they are correct.
 
Hospitals, Surgery, Crank, Music are ancient and even prehistoric. Muslims did not invent it.

Coffee was invented in Ethiopia not Yemen. Stop your Arab revisionism.


The rest I don't know but I'm sure they are correct.

Muslims invented many things, even missiles where developed and made by a Muslim Sultan in India (Tipu Sultan) to fight off British soldiers. This was posted by CNN and researched by respected people. Come up with reliable sources to prove your points.
 

maestro

Cultural revolution
Muslims invented many things, even missiles where developed and made by a Muslim Sultan in India (Tipu Sultan) to fight off British soldiers. This was posted by CNN and researched by respected people. Come up with reliable sources to prove your points.

1. Coffee is not an Arab invention. It was invented in Ethiopia

2. Music was not invented by anyone it's pre historic.

3. Cranks have been used by Rome, China, Persia and Greece. The earliest to be found was from the Roman Empire way before Islam.

4. The first civilization (Sumerians) invented Surgery

5. Hospitals were common since the beginning don't tell me Muslims invented it

Muslims invented a lot of things like Algebra, Degree granting universities, water purification techniques and they have also improved things like Astronomy and sea navigation. But let's not go crazy here and claim the invention of Music, Coffee and hospitals.
 
1. Coffee is not an Arab invention. It was invented in Ethiopia

2. Music was not invented by anyone it's pre historic.

3. Cranks have been used by Rome, China, Persia and Greece. The earliest to be found was from the Roman Empire way before Islam.

4. The first civilization (Sumerians) invented Surgery

5. Hospitals were common since the beginning don't tell me Muslims invented it

Muslims invented a lot of things like Algebra, Degree granting universities, water purification techniques and they have also improved things like Astronomy and sea navigation. But let's not go crazy here and claim the invention of Music, Coffee and hospitals.

Like I said, come up with reliable sources to prove your points.
 

waraabe

Your superior
Nah, it was the arid/grassland part of the Horn. Not the highlands.

The Afar region has the oldest human skulls and Somali inhabited areas are pretty close. So first humans could've come from Somalia.
Can't take credit for gods creation
 

EternalLightX

Queen of the light
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Kinda depressing so maha
Unfortunately we were nomads thus incapable of getting together and inventing things you need a stable society in order to do this. Although somalis have invented the oldest maritime vessel or ship known as the Beden or Badan. One of the oldest surviving sewn boat in the Horn of Africa and Arab peninsula, there are two types of boats one for fishing the (Beden Seyed) and for trading (the Beden Safar).
 

waraabe

Your superior
Unfortunately we were nomads thus incapable of getting together and inventing things you need a stable society in order to do this. Although somalis have invented the oldest maritime vessel or ship known as the Beden or Badan. One of the oldest surviving sewn boat in the Horn of Africa and Arab peninsula, there are two types of boats one for fishing the (Beden Seyed) and for trading (the Beden Safar).

We haven't invented shit
 
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