Question:
What are the 5 greatest inventions that came from Muslim societies in the last 500 years?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
What are the 5 greatest inventions that came from Muslim societies in the last 500 years?
Eighteen answers:
anonymous
2015-05-16 07:21:52 UTC
Inventions that came from Muslim societies in the last 1000 years..
anonymous
2015-05-16 06:59:16 UTC
Inventions that came from Muslim societies. Hmm....
Hey_Irish
2015-05-16 06:53:17 UTC
Anger
?
2015-05-16 07:04:01 UTC
Nothing. We are not good at science.
anonymous
2015-05-16 12:08:39 UTC
We don't need inventions other than lies.
anonymous
2015-05-16 10:05:07 UTC
None they were praying to Allah while Atheists were learning about the world and making discoveries!
anonymous
2015-05-16 06:42:30 UTC
More fking excuse to divert the fact that muhammad is a filthy paedo.
Boab
2015-05-16 20:23:28 UTC
arabs invented nothing ,zero,.....I don't know if they were muslims or apostates though
Mike Cooper
2015-05-16 13:45:10 UTC
Nothing.
?
2015-05-16 15:28:34 UTC
Um Muslims why not take a look on the God damned internet? Do I have to do everything myself?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world#cite_note-Lohrmann-8

Look in the sources.
anonymous
2016-12-17 15:34:34 UTC
5 Greatest Inventions
?
2015-05-17 10:59:13 UTC
You said societies.. See Mughal Architecture, Muslims were the one who spread the concept of gardens for meditation and algebra, Every thing happening I mean inventing in Muslim countries came under Muslim inventions & these are uncountable..I also remember that the king of acids sulphuric acid was discovered by Muslim scientist but this was I think before 500 years , Muslims stopped the real progress in science before it because than becoming a scientist was not a major profession in their society but there were different like astronomy, engineering e.t.c. Only having The Religion of Truth is enough for us by the way..!! #PEACE
Who
2015-05-17 08:42:09 UTC
A bit stupid asking for inventions in isolation from the past, and other things happening at the same time



Inventions come AFTER the basic scientific research and THAT comes from previous research, and research before that and so on



Nothing in science or engineering just "happens" - it comes from all the work done before



The "information age" did not just "happen" - it came from the development of the transistor and THAT came from quantum mechanic

The modern microchip would not be possible without the invention of photography, and THAT relied on chemistry

Without the microchip or quantum mechanics or photography the "information age" would not exist



I have no idea what contribution 99.9% of people who have lived made to ANY invention that if they hadnt made it the "invention" would not be possible



For example

If nobody had invented the typewriter would the computer exist? (can you imagine a computer without a keyboard?)

If nobody had invented plastic would a computer exist? (can you imagine a computer without any sockets?)

If nobody had invented glass would a computer exist? - (1st computers had valves- these were made of glass - VDUs had glass screens, all pcbs are made from fibre glass - take away glass - no valves, no pcbs, no computer, no VDU)



Are these inventions less great just cos they have been around for years and we take them for granted?

After all- if nobody had invented them the world as we know it today would not, COULD NOT, exist



So that raises the very basic question



What IS a "great" invention?



One that everybody knows about?, or one thats fundamental but very few people (if anybody) knows who invented it?
anonymous
2015-05-16 11:34:32 UTC
Michael Jackson once said that Frank Sinatra couldn't sing. What he didn't know is, if Ole Frank didn't prepare the way in show business, there would be no Michael Jackson.

It was the Muslims who introduced the West to Science...it's something no one can deny.

Muslim fanatics stopped the regular Muslims from making any scientific advancements and Christian Europe was happy to use the Science that Muslims introduced to propel Europe into the Modern age.

Name any modern invention and I can show you the Islamic DNA clearly stamped on it.
anonymous
2015-05-17 04:34:46 UTC
@Knight, can you please remember that these Noble Prizes are a Western thing. If Nobel prizes were around during the olden days, then most would have gone to the Muslims.



And just remember that Western countries are the ones who are causing most of the problems in the Middle East. They are the ones who support the corrupt governments (and even helped put in place some of those governments) in Muslim countries. And these corrupt governments are....corrupt. They don't care about improving their countries or helping their people and putting money towards Research & Development.
anonymous
2015-05-16 07:22:13 UTC
We don't need inventions. We have the TRUTH.
?
2015-05-16 06:42:42 UTC
What are your inventions since the day you born?
?
2015-05-16 12:13:44 UTC
The more important question is "What are your inventions since the day you born?"

Your question has been carefully tailored to exclude all the Amazing and great inventions created by Muslims even further than 500 years.The only reason you are even capable of using a computer is because Muslims invented Algebra .So there !

Around the year 1,000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Among his many inventions, Zahrawi discovered the use of dissolving cat gut to stitch wounds -- beforehand a second surgery had to be performed to remove sutures. He also reportedly performed the first caesarean operation and created the first pair of forceps.

Now the Western world's drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the empire. By the 13th century it reached Turkey, but not until the 16th century did the beans start boiling in Europe, brought to Italy by a Venetian trader.

Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly," said Hassani. In the 9th century he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird costume. In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and partially breaking his back. His designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's hundreds of years later, said Hassani.

In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco. Her sister Miriam founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University. Still operating almost 1,200 years later, Hassani says he hopes the center will remind people that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition and that the story of the al-Firhi sisters will inspire young Muslim women around the world today.

The word algebra comes from the title of a Persian mathematician's famous 9th century treatise "Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala" which translates roughly as "The Book of Reasoning and Balancing." Built on the roots of Greek and Hindu systems, the new algebraic order was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational numbers and geometrical magnitudes. The same mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power.

Many of the most important advances in the study of optics come from the Muslim world," says Hassani. Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemy's theories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain.

According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath. Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste.

Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting rod system. By converting rotary motion to linear motion, the crank enables the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease. This technology, discovered by Al-Jazari in the 12th century, exploded across the globe, leading to everything from the bicycle to the internal combustion engine.

Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt," explained Hassani. The first such medical center was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, founded in 872 in Cairo. Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who needed it -- a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the Muslim world.





Now that we are done with that ,let us see some recent inventions by Muslims



Skyscrapers, tallest: The Bangladeshi engineer Fazlur Khan, considered the "Einstein of structural engineering" and "the greatest architectural engineer of the second half of the 20th century" produced designs of structural systems that remain fundamental to all high-rise skyscrapers, which he employed in his constructions for the John Hancock Center and Sears Tower. The Sears Tower remained the world's tallest building up until 2007, when the Burj Dubai, currently under construction in Dubai, surpassed its height as the world's tallest building, reaching 585.7 metres (1,922 ft) in height and will be even taller when complete. The world's tallest twin towers, the Petronas Twin Towers, was also built in Malaysia in 1998.



A variation of the laser harp, this is an electronic musical instrument that plays music without any physical contact, or without even any lasers showing, but the music is played by the musician moving their arms or legs through the air above certain areas of the device. It was invented by martial artistist and musician, Assaf Gurner, who publically presented his invention in 1993. It was also the basis for the Sega Activator, the first full-body motion controller for video games



E-learning micro-lecture: The Khan Academy founded by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan in 2006. His online micro-lectures are used by millions of students and teachers around the world.

Real-time anti-fraud system: In 2000, many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-fraud system, was designed and implemented by Bangladeshi American software engineer Jawed Karim.

Ali shuffle: The "Ali Shuffle" was a boxing move invented by Muhammad Ali, where he moved his feet quickly back and forth to try to confuse his opponent.Rope-a-dope: The rope-a-dope boxing technique was invented by Muhammad Ali during his fight against George Foreman during the "Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974.

Vertically rising ladder: This was invented in Turkey by Murat Nural and won the gold medal at the IENA Invention Fair at Nuremberg in 2007. It was designed to climb high points and facilitate suspending there. The user who inserts his/her feet on the movable climbers moves his/her feet backward and forward and climbs upward on the steps. When the user wants to suspend, he/she fixes the climber on the step. The same procedure is followed reversely while getting down. Thanks to its movable legs, it will be possible to work on it for long time without getting tired, and allows easy operation on rough grounds. It also offers the opportunity to use both hands while on the ladder and easy operation on narrow points. It is also easy to keep and transport thanks to its small body, and there is no need for someone else to hold the ladders while one climbs on higher points on the ladder. It will be easy to carry the materials thanks to its hanger, and due to the fact that its legs on the ground are parallel to the ground it is not buried into the ground, so that it can be used to pick fruits up in the gardens. It also helps the operator to work against the wall when he/she wants to hang something on the wall, and it enables easy operation at angular spaces since the legs on the ground can be curved.


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