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What You Need to Know About Abul Fida, a Mamluk-era Geographer, Historian, and Ayyubid Prince
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The Lives, Writings and Influence of Alfraganus: Al-Farghani, The Scholar of Baghdad
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Taqi Ad Din: The Most Innovative Mind of 16th Century Islam, A Muslim Polymath
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Muslims in Science

from the Arab world to medieval Europe

The Mysterious Al-Kindi - The Greatest Arabic Scientist of All Time
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The Mysterious Al-Kindi - The Greatest Arabic Scientist of All Time

Al-Kindi was a famous mathematician who introduced Indian numerals to the Islamic world and introduced several new methods of breaking ciphers, notably frequency analysis. His philosophical works are largely overshadowed by those of al-Farabi, and few of his texts are available for modern scholars to examine. Al-Kindi was born in Kufa to an aristocratic family of the Kinda tribe, and was appointed to the House of Wisdom by al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim. He was also well known for his beautiful calligraphy, but his star waned under al-Wthiq and al-Mutawakkil. Al-Kindi's philosophical works fell into obscurity after his death, probably because they did not find popularity amongst later Islamic philosophers. Al-Kindi wrote at least two hundred and sixty books, of which twenty-four were rediscovered in a Turkish library in the mid-twentieth century. Al-Kindi was a great philosopher who translated many important texts into Arabic. Without his work, Al-Farabi, Avicenna and al-Ghazali might not have existed. Al-Kindi's writings demonstrated the compatibility between philosophy and natural theology, and he rejected speculative theology. He also incorporated Aristotelian and neo-Platonist thought into an Islamic philosophical framework. Al-Kindi took his view of the solar system from Ptolemy, and believes that the planets and stars are rational entities whose circular motion is in obedience to and worship of God. Al-Kindi wrote several works on astrology, including The Book of the Judgement of the Stars, On the Stellar Rays, De mutatione temporum, Treatise on the Judgement of Eclipses, and The Choices of Days. Al-Kindi was the first major writer on optics since antiquity and developed a theory that everything in the world emits rays in every direction. Al-Kindi's theories on optics include the Aristotelian and Euclidean theories, which both believe that vision occurs in straight lines when "rays" from the eye reach an illuminated object and are reflected back. Al-Kindi considered Euclidean optics to be the most correct theory because it explained the experience of seeing. This theory was later translated into Latin and was the main Arabic text to affect the development of optical investigations in Europe. Al-Kindi wrote more than thirty treatises in the field of medicine, including De Gradibus, in which he demonstrated the application of mathematics to medicine. Al-Kindi's work contains one of the earliest known references to the distillation of wine, as well as recipes for 107 different kinds of perfumes. Al-Kindi authored several works on mathematics, including a work on the theory of parallels and two works on optics.

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Muslim scientists have made tremendous contributions to the sciences throughout Islamic Golden Age.

Islamic World Contribution to Medical Science
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Islamic World Contribution to Medical Science

During the post-classical era, Islamic medicine was the most advanced in the world, integrating concepts of from all over the world, while making numerous advances and innovations. The Islamic World Contribution to Medical Science has been a topic of discussion since the 9th century when Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, an Arab physician and surgeon, published a compendium of medical knowledge. According to al-Zahrawi in Kitab Al Tajarib Fi Al Tibb: Every field of science has its own contribution to the medical sciences. Here, it is the Islamic world's contribution to the medical science. The Muslim World Contributions to Medicine (MMCM) is a term used for many contributions made by Islamic scholars in medicine and healthcare dating back over 1000 years ago. MMCM includes: - Introduction of new medical texts as well as various instruments and devices - Development of medical knowledge such as the creation of Hippocratic oath, Hippocratic Corpus, ophthalmology and pharmacology. A landmark in Islamic medicine was the founding of Baghdad's first hospital in 765 AD by the caliph Al-Nasir. The first hospital in Baghdad was founded by the Caliph Al-Nasir in 765 AD. Medieval Islamic physicians were considered experts on health and disease, as well as philosophy, theology, and law. They held many medical titles including specialist doctors of ophthalmology , orthopedics, surgery, and dentistry. They were also known for their botanical knowledge and pharmacology. The Islamic religion has traditionally prohibited the use of alcohol, which was not known in the medieval period. Alcohol appears to have been legally available throughout the medieval Islamic world in a few locations such as Spain during this time period. Muslim Super Heroes https://www.facebook.com/muslimsuperheores
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