Why aren't there many Muslim inventors?

Question

Looking back at the 19th century, it seems that Muslims haven't patented any jaw-breaking inventions. Why is this so?

Answer 1

You want the top ten or the whole list?



Ok, Just for you



Physics



* two-component neutrino theory and the prediction of the inevitable parity violation in weak interaction;

* gauge unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions, the unified force is called the "Electroweak" force, a name given to it by Salam, and which forms the basis of the Standard Model in particle physics;

* predicted existence of weak neutral currents and W particles and Z particles before their experimental discovery;

* symmetry properties of elementary particles; unitary symmetry;

* renormalization of meson theories;

* gravity theory and its role in particle physics; two tensor theory of gravity and strong interaction physics;

* unification of electroweak with strong nuclear forces, grand unification theory;

* related prediction of proton-decay;

* Pati-Salam model, a grand unification theory;

* Supersymmetry theory, in particular formulation of Superspace and formalism of superfields in 1974;

* the theory of supermanifolds, as a geometrical framework for understanding supersymmetry, in 1974;

* Supergeometry, the geometric basis for supersymmetry, in 1974;

* application of the Higgs mechanism to the electroweak symmetry breaking;

* prediction of the magnetic photon in 1966;



Modern skyscrapers



Chicago's skyline could not grow any further due to the heavy costs of constructing high-rise skyscrapers until the early 1960s, when structural engineer Fazlur Khan realized that the rigid steel frame structure that had "dominated tall building design and construction so long was not the only system fitting for tall buildings", marking "the beginning of a new era of skyscraper revolution in terms of multiple structural systems."[19] His central innovation in skyscraper design and construction was the idea of the "tube" structural system, including the "framed tube", "trussed tube", and "bundled tube".[20] These systems allowed far greater economic efficiency,[21] and also allowed efficient skyscrapers to take on various shapes, no longer needing to be box-shaped.[22] Over the next fifteen years, many towers were built by Khan and the "Second Chicago School",[23] including the massive 442-meter (1,451-foot) Sears Tower,[24] leading to its current number of buildings over 492 ft.



Economics



Mahbub ul Haq [economics], helped in the development of the Human Development Index.



Chemistry.



Prof Dr Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (19 October 1897 - 14 April 1994) was a leading Pakistani scientist in natural products chemistry. He is credited for pioneering the isolation of unique chemical compounds from the Neem (Azadirachta indica), Rauwolfia, and various other flora. As the founder director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, he revolutionised the research on pharmacology of various domestic plants found in South Asia to extract novel chemical substances of medicinal importance.[1] In addition to his scientific talents, Siddiqui was also a painter, a poet, and a great connoisseur of music. His paintings were exhibited in Germany, India, and Pakistan



Applied mathematics and computer science



Lotfi Zadeh is also credited, along with John R. Ragazzini, in 1952, with having pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete time signal processing and analysis. These methods are now standard in digital signal processing, digital control, and other discrete-time systems used in industry and research.



Zadeh is one of the most referenced authors in the fields of applied mathematics and computer science, but his contributions are not limited to fuzzy sets and systems.



Computerized face recognition

Abdenour Hadid

Answer 2

Before inventing something you have to have the capability to think or imagine strange things. Which might be considered as weird to others. With the use of drugs or alcohol this can be achieved quickly. Muslims do not consume these and this is a point. You will not find any inventing nation/country who does not consume alcohol or equivalent.

You have to pass/engage yourself in research for a long time without break. But Muslims can not do that, for example you have to stop anything and go to the mosque at the time of Juma. This is another point.

Finally, Allah has not given the ability to do so. This is not strange. You find many examples in the holy Quran where the non believers were much smarter than the believers.

Next:

Profanity does not break fasting. Note that. So you could say whatever you like. Can't say more as you have not mentioned at which part of my answer produced that feelings in your mind.

Anyway, if that is the 1st part, just name a inventing nation where consuming alcohol is illegal.

If objection is in the 2nd part, either you are not praying regularly or never dived into creating or experimenting something scientific. And if you think doing both simultaneously is not a problem. Tell me a name of any present Muslim scientist invented something basic and good comparable to non Islamic inventions. Here, basic means not researching or producing something which is a branch of the basic invention by non Muslims. For example electronic or firearms. And please don't mention about the inventors like Al Jaber etc. I know that already and do not consider as big and necessary invention. Take care.

Answer 3

muslims discovered and invented thousands of things in19th Century



ALgebra we discovered it

we discovered the Cornea in the human eye and three more i don't remember



we wrote the first map for the world by elshreef eledreesi



and we was sending knowlrge to europe

Answer 4

we are told not to innovate seriously, im not going to find the specific videos but look at my source ive watched a lot of videos saying stuff like that so maybe we shy from makin stuff

Answer 5

Because Muslims have more important things to get on with in life.

Answer 6

WE DISCOVERED THE NUMBER 0. ISN'T THAT ENOUGH???



jk

It was the Arabs/Muslims that invented the concept of 0, though.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim_scientists



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Answer 8

I've dont my bit of research :)





1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.





2 The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.



3 A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot.



4 A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.



5 Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.



6 Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.



7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.



8 Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusade



@asker..its good to know your history..i didnt mean to oppose you :)

Answer 9

They invented the Burka and Turbin