I may be naive but I really dont know of any great inventions/discoveries brought to the world by Muslims or arabs. Would you guys be kind enough to start naming a few.
List of great muslim/arab inventions or discoveries
- Thread starter gunslinger
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algebra
Thats good, though somewhat ambiguous as a lot of cultures had some form of algebra.
Of course ignorance is one of the reasons, but cultural separation and "massaging of history" that has happened over thousands of years might be blamed too. I know arabs contributed a lot in the area of mathematics, some forms of warfare - but that's it. There is almost no focus on arab history in western classes, so I guess that is to blame - just like we learn little about oriental philosophy.
However, I found a list of some accounts ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventions_in_the_Muslim_world
However, I found a list of some accounts ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventions_in_the_Muslim_world
How about inventions that were not discovered by Muslim Arabs? Bulldozers?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1090824112057171005&q=&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1090824112057171005&q=&hl=en
If you want you might want to start a thread addressing ":non-muslim inventions" but i guess that would be redundant.
Im sorry but this was a thread to find out about islamic inventors and discoverers. Thanks for playing.
Come on fellas. a 1/4 of the worlds population is muslim or arab, there must be some good things to come out of these societies that have benefited the world.
Millions of virgins for thousands of shahids.