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)