Islam's Forgotten/Erased Contributions to science

"Prince Charles, Heir to the British Monarch in a public speech at Oxford University: “If there is much misunderstanding in the west about the nature of Islam, there is also much ignorance about the debt our own culture and civilisation owe to the Islamic world. It is a failure, which, I think, from the straight-jacket of history, which we have inherited. The medieval Islamic world. From Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the west, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history”." (1)

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"George Sarton, considered to be the "father" of the history of science (2); payed tribute to Muslim Scientists in the "Introduction to the History of Science
,"It will suffice here to evoke a few glorious names without contemporary equivalents in the West: Jabir ibn Haiyan, al-Kindi, al-Khwarizmi, al-Fargani, al-Razi, Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Battani, Hunain ibn Ishaq, al-Farabi, Ibrahim ibn Sinan, al-Masudi, al-Tabari, Abul Wafa, 'Ali ibn Abbas, Abul Qasim, Ibn al-Jazzar, al-Biruni, Ibn Sina, Ibn Yunus, al-Kashi, Ibn al-Haitham, 'Ali Ibn 'Isa al-Ghazali, al-zarqab, Omar Khayyam. A magnificent array of names which it would not be difficult to extend. If anyone tells you that the Middle Ages were scientifically sterile, just quote these men to him, all of whom flourished within a short period, 750 to 1100 A.D."" (1)

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Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation - “A British educational organisation which was formed to popularise, disseminate and promote an accurate account of Muslim Heratige and its contribution to present day science, technology and civilisation.”

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Islam and Science

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Islam’s Forgotten Contributions to Medical Science
http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=1054

Islam as the Impetus of Scientific Advance
http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=252

How Islam Inspired Scientific Advance
http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=651

Introduction to Muslim Science
http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Introduction_to_Muslim%20Science.pdf

Muslim Scholars and Science
http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=250

Science Conflicting with Religion? Not for Muslims!

http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=247

Islamic Science, the Scholar and Ethics
http://muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=570

Chronology of Major Events in Muslim Heritage
http://muslimheritage.com/timeline/chronology.cfm

1001 Inventions - Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World
"1001 Inventions is a groundbreaking global educational iniative exploring the Muslim contributions to building the foundaions of modern civilisation"
http://www.1001inventions.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.viewSection&intSectionID=308
http://www.1001inventions.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.viewSection&intSectionID=309

The Scientific Heritage of Muslim Civilisation
http://www.1001inventions.com/media/video/library

How Muslim Inventors Changed the World
http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/1984/

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(1) Source: Islamic Heritage
(2) source: Lynn, C. Hattendorf., Westney (1998) Historical rankings of science and technology: A Citationist perspective. The Journal of the Association for History and Computing, Vol 1