MUSLIMS CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD CIVILIZATIONS

WALEED FARIS INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY

OUTLINE
Introduction Islamization as historical process Muslim Contributions to Other Civilization Muslim Contributions To Islamic
Civilization What About Future Conclusions

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION
Myth#1 Muslims conveyed the Greek
heritage to the European safe or Fridge theory Myth#2 Muslims scientific contribution came after translating the Greek works in Mamun time

WHY?
There is an urgent need to reclaim these
achievements and, as their heirs, it is our duty to continue holding the torch of knowledge lighted by these illustrious personalities. Therefore, bring their works into he limelight once again, so that mankind may benefit from them.

ISLAMIZATION
Islamization Components of Islamization: Intention,
Tool, and Goal Historicity of Islamization

Civilization
the word itself comes from the Latin
adjective civilis, a reference to a citizen. Civilization and Cities. The Oxford English Dictionary defines civilization as "the action or process of civilizing or of being civilized; a developed or advanced state of human society."

CIVILIZATION
One definition of civilization requires that a civilized people have a sense of history -meaning that the past counts in the present.

ISLAMIC APPROACH TO CIVILIZATION

Have they not seen how many a generation before them We have destroyed whom We had established on the earth such as We have not established you? And We poured out on them rain from the sky in abundance, and made the rivers flow under them. Yet We destroyed them for their sins, and We created after them other generations. [An3am:6] Those (Muslim rulers) who, if We give them power in the land, (they) enjoin Iqamat-as-Salt (establish the Prayers), to pay the Zakt and they enjoin Al-Marf (enjoing the Good), and forbid Al-Munkar (forbid the evil) [i.e. they make the Qurn as the law of their country in all the spheres of life]. And with Allh rests the end of (all) matters (of creatures). [Hajj:41]

MUSLIM CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER CIVILIZATIONS

Chinese civilization: Admiral Muhammad
Cheng Ho, Kwang Hui Sze social welfare for the imperial guards, Hui Hui Yao Fang which means (Muslim Prescription). Frederick II Mongols

Islamic Civilization
The first colleges appeared in the Muslim world in the late 600's and early 700's. In Europe, some of the earliest colleges are those under the University of Paris and Oxford they were founded around the thirteenth century. These early European colleges were also funded by trusts similar to the Islamic ones and legal historians have traced them back to the Islamic system. The internal organization of these European colleges was strikingly similar to the Islamic ones, for example the idea of Graduate (Sahib) and undergraduate (mutafaqqih) is derived directly from Islamic terms.

Mathematics
Algebra Trigonometry Analytic geometry Computational methods Geometry Arithmetic Calculus

MEDICINE
Surgery Hospital in the modern sense Psychology and Psychiatry Internal Medicine Pharmacology Anatomy of the eye and circulatory system

ASTRONOMY
Observatory Calendar Sun rotating around earth which is
credited to Copernicus Earth is sphere Gravity

PHYSICS
Optics Definition of light that is credited to

Newton Laws of motions that are credited to Newton Gravity Nuclear fission (Fariduddin Attar)

CHEMISTRY
Acids Alkaline Salt Lab basic equipment Fundamentals of chemical reactions

PHILOSOPHY
Logic Reasoning to prove the existence of God Comparing the philosophies of the east
and west Comparative religion studies Usul Fiqh and Grammar

LANGUAGE
Linguistics studies started by Ahmed Bin
Faris Al-Razi book Fiqh Al-Lughah) Phonetic studies started by AKhalil Bin Ahmad Al-Farahidi Study of grammar as a systematic science by Sibaweeh

ENGINEERING
Mechanisms Toothed wheels Hydraulic systems Torpedoes (floating eggs) Cannons

Conclusion
Where are we?