Contributions by Muslim Scientists to the World Enlarge :)

[modern.fakir]

Aviation Technology




Parachute

In 9th century Islamic Spain, Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firnas) invented aprimitive version of the parachute. John H. Lienhard described it in The Enginesof Our Ingenuity as follows:

"In 852, a new Caliph and a bizarre experiment: A daredevil named ArmenFirman decided to fly off a tower in Cordova. He glided back to earth, using ahuge winglike cloak to break his fall. He survived with minor injuries, and theyoung Ibn Firnas was there to see it."

[modern.fakir]

Hang glider
Shortly afterwards, Abbas Ibn Firnas built the first hang glider, which may havealso been the first manned glider. Knowledge of Firman and Firnas' flyingmachines spread to other parts of Europe from Arabic references.According to Philip Hitti in History of the Arabs:"Ibn Firnas was the first man in history to make a scientific attempt at flying."

Flight controls
Abbas Ibn Firnas was the first to make an attempt at controlled flight. Hemanuipulated the flight controls of his hang glider using two sets of artificialwings to adjust his altitude and to change his direction. He successfullyreturned to where he had lifted off from, but his landing was unsuccessful.

Artificial wings
Ibn Firnas' hang glider was the first to have artificial wings, though the flightwas eventually unsuccessful. According to Evliya Çelebi in the 17th century,Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi was the first aviator to have made a successful flightwith artificial wings between 1630-1632.

Artificially-powered manned rocket
According to Evliya Çelebi in the 17th century, Lagari Hasan Çelebi launchedhimself in the air in a seven-winged rocket, which was composed of a large cagewith a conical top filled with gunpowder. The flight was accomplished as a partof celebrations performed for the birth of Ottoman Emperor Murad IV's daughterin 1633. Evliya reported that Lagari made a soft landing in the Bosporus by usingthe wings attached to his body as a parachute after the gunpowder wasconsumed, foreshadowing the sea-landing methods of astronauts withparachutes after their voyages into outer space. Lagari's flight was estimated tohave lasted about twenty seconds and the maximum height reached was around300 metres. This was the first known example of a manned rocket and anartificially-powered aircraft.

Astronautics and space exploration
In the 20th century, Muslim rocket scientists from Soviet Central Asia wereinvolved in research on astronautics and space exploration. Kerim Kerimov fromAzerbaijan was one of the most important key figures in early space

[modern.fakir]

Camera technology
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), the "father of optics" and pioneer of the modernscientific method, invented the camera obscura and pinhole camera.In ancient times, Euclid and Ptolemy believed that the eyes emitted rays whichenabled us to see. The first person to realise that rays of light enters the eye,rather than leaving it, was the 10th century Muslim mathematician, astronomerand physicist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), who is regarded as the "father ofoptics".He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from aphilosophical activity to an experimental one, with his development of thescientific method. The word "camera" comes from the Arabic word qamara for adark or private room.

Pinhole camera
Ibn al-Haytham first described pinhole camera after noticing the way light camethrough a hole in window shutters.[39]

Camera obscura
Ibn al-Haytham worked out that the smaller the hole, the better the picture,and set up the first camera obscura, a precursor to the modern camera.

Chemical technology
Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber), the father of chemistry, invented the alembic stilland many chemicals, including distilled alcohol, and established the perfumeindustry.Early forms of distillation were known to the Babylonians, Greeks and Egyptianssince ancient times, but it was Muslim chemists who first invented puredistillation processes which could fully purify chemical substances. They alsodeveloped several different variations of distillation (such as dry distillation,destructive distillation and steam distillation) and introduced new distillationaparatus (such as the alembic, still, and retort), and invented a variety of newchemical processes and over 2,000 chemical substances.

Chemical processes
Geber first invented the following chemical processes in the 8th century:Pure distillation (al-taqtir) which could fully purify chemical substances withthe alembic

[modern.fakir]

and the list goes on and On ....even till today

Not to mention the TAJ MAHAL in Greater Pakistan

The malaysian twin towers

The burj al Arab - UAE

The largest man made irrigation system in the world - Pakistan

The founder of the Soviet Space Program

Soviet Space Program :

In the 20th century, Muslim rocket scientists from Soviet Central Asia wereinvolved in research on astronautics and space exploration. Kerim Kerimov fromAzerbaijan was one of the most important key figures in early space


exploration. He was one of the founders of the Soviet space program, one of thelead architects behind the first human spaceflight (Vostok 1), and responsiblefor the launch of the first space stations (the Salyut and Mir series) as well as their predecessors (the Cosmos 186 and Cosmos 188)

[BuTurabi]

نِری قبر پرستی

[khan27]

bahi prob yeh hai ke yeh kaam boht phele huwe ajkal konsa asa kaam kiya hai hum ne? :p

[modern.fakir]

(14) It is in Hadith - Yahya (رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ) related from Imam Maalik (رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ) that he heard that AIi Ibn Abi Talib(رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ)used to rest his head on Graves and lie on them [meaning holding the grave with his stretched hands while his head, entire face and chest is rested on the Grave]. Maalik (رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ) said, "As far as we can see, it is only forbidden to sit on the Graves to relieve oneself." (Muatta' Imâm Malik - Book #16, Hadith #16.11.34)

It is in Hadith - Narrated Al-Bara (رضئ اللہ تعالی عنہ): The Prophet (صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم)went towards Al-Baqi (the Graveyard at Medina) on the day of Id-ul-Adha and offered a two-Rakat prayer (of 'Id-ul-Adha).... (part of the Hadith).(Bukhari - Book #15, Hadith #93



Question for Buturabi....Do you know more than Hazrat Ali Ra ????

[modern.fakir]

Nuclear Power

6th largest Army in the world

Dubai is an economic miracle

Largest exporter of oil

Largest exporter of Food

Pakistan, malaysia, Iran, Indonesia have all produced their own cars ...

Jf-17 in pakistan, f-16 production in Turkey

Rising overall economies ...

Emirates airline soon becoming the largest airline fleet in the world..

PLus many many more...

bahi prob yeh hai ke yeh kaam boht phele huwe ajkal konsa asa kaam kiya hai hum ne? :p

[Saadbaloch]

This shud be in our History Books instead to wright brothers etc

[modern.fakir]

Exactly ...thats why we need to re-write everything from our history books to our economics to our socialism...everything has an Islamic Aspect which needs to be highlighted

This shud be in our History Books instead to wright brothers etc

[Unicorn]

While you are in full glory don't forget the greatest scientist of the 20th century A Q Khan for stealing Urenco. He had his art perfected.

[Skeptic]

Name any scientist from Saudi Arabia,Egypt,Libya, Morocco, Tunisia ,Algeria and so on.............

please don't mention any name from Iraq or Iran......?

[desh1857]

While you are in full glory don't forget the greatest scientist of the 20th century A Q Khan for stealing Urenco. He had his art perfected.

[barca]

While you are in full glory don't forget the greatest scientist of the 20th century A Q Khan for stealing Urenco. He had his art perfected.

تم لوگوں کی ایجاد بھی کم نہیں موتر کولا گوبر کا سالسہ اوپن باتھ روم

[AsifAmeer]

Wasnt that the reason why it is the way it is?

This shud be in our History Books instead to wright brothers etc

[brilTek]

Nuclear Power

6th largest Army in the world

Dubai is an economic miracle

Largest exporter of oil

Largest exporter of Food

Pakistan, malaysia, Iran, Indonesia have all produced their own cars ...

Jf-17 in pakistan, f-16 production in Turkey

Rising overall economies ...

Emirates airline soon becoming the largest airline fleet in the world..

PLus many many more...

If you don't mind, would you like to reveal your age.

Your posts reflects you have no idea of 'contributions by muslim scientists' ??

Did muslims build irrigation system in Pakistan?

Did muslims architect designed and build Burj e Dubai? Ek jhonpri banay ki aukaat hai nahi --- UAE shieks only provided money

F 16 production in Turkey? Seriously -- they got ToT from USA to build some parts. Not a single Muslim country come close to build a fighter engine.

Now if some country is exporting oil --- how the hell you can credit Muslim country for this? Its a gift from Allah subhan tallah. --- oil nikalney ki tu aauqaat nahi hai -- woh tuk americans ney aa ker nikkaal ker diyaa hai


I think I should stop here............Enough said. And not to disappoint you....wake up and smell a coffee.


First let Muslims achieve something -- then we will all do chest thumping.



---
brilTek

[AsifAmeer]

>>Nuclear Power
transfered

>>6th largest Army in the world
liability


Dubai is an economic miracle
Dubai? Muslim? Heck, is it even Arab anymore?

Largest exporter of oil
PETRO-DOLLAR

Largest exporter of Food
Feudalism is rotting the core of the subcontinent

Pakistan, malaysia, Iran, Indonesia have all produced their own cars ...
Congrats.

Jf-17 in pakistan, f-16 production in Turkey
Do not compare Pakistan with Turkey. Turkey is a whole different ballgame. Its a matured civilization, unlike the Muslims of Pakistan. Turkey has jews living there. Pakistan has Islamic Scholars feeing from the country. Thats not comparision, but contrast.

Emirates airline soon becoming the largest airline fleet in the world..
same as dubai

Nuclear Power

6th largest Army in the world

Dubai is an economic miracle

Largest exporter of oil

Largest exporter of Food

Pakistan, malaysia, Iran, Indonesia have all produced their own cars ...

Jf-17 in pakistan, f-16 production in Turkey

Rising overall economies ...

Emirates airline soon becoming the largest airline fleet in the world..

PLus many many more...

[Unicorn]

Wasnt that the reason why it is the way it is?

. I think it will go over his head.

[AsifAmeer]

If you are going to write like this, I suggest u include


I have seem Muslims progress alot in the US. It has nothing to do with FAITH but culture. Its the subcontinent culture. Notice the countries that are doing relatively better arent the Muslims of the subcontinent.. i.e. Malaysia, Turkey.

@modern.fakir

I'd like to know your age too.

If you don't mind, would you like to reveal your age.

Your posts reflects you have no idea of 'contributions by muslim scientists' ??

Did muslims build irrigation system in Pakistan?

Did muslims architect designed and build Burj e Dubai? Ek jhonpri banay ki aukaat hai nahi --- UAE shieks only provided money

F 16 production in Turkey? Seriously -- they got ToT from USA to build some parts. Not a single Muslim country come close to build a fighter engine.

Now if some country is exporting oil --- how the hell you can credit Muslim country for this? Its a gift from Allah subhan tallah. --- oil nikalney ki tu aauqaat nahi hai -- woh tuk americans ney aa ker nikkaal ker diyaa hai


I think I should stop here............Enough said. And not to disappoint you....wake up and smell a coffee.


First let Muslims achieve something -- then we will all do chest thumping.



---
brilTek

[A.Ali.T]

Aviation Technology




Parachute

In 9th century Islamic Spain, Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firnas) invented aprimitive version of the parachute. John H. Lienhard described it in The Enginesof Our Ingenuity as follows:

"In 852, a new Caliph and a bizarre experiment: A daredevil named ArmenFirman decided to fly off a tower in Cordova. He glided back to earth, using ahuge winglike cloak to break his fall. He survived with minor injuries, and theyoung Ibn Firnas was there to see it."

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