The greatest scientific advances from the Muslim world
Q. What is the brief history of Islam?
Islam was founded by the prophet Mohammed, who was born in Mecca around A.D. 570 and settled in Medina around 622. Muslims believe Mohammed was the last and most important in a series of prophets, including Abraham, Moses and Jesus. The holy book of Islam is the Koran, which means “the timeless words of God.”
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Q. What are the three historical turning points in Islam?
What are the three historical turning points in Islam? Three major turning points in Islam are the division of Islam between Shi’a and Sunni, the conquest of Jerusalem and Damascus, and the Battle of Tours (which kept Islam from spreading into Europe).
- The elephant clock (below)
- The camera obscura.
- Al-Idrisi’s world map.
- The Banu Musa brothers’ “ingenious devices”
- Al-Zahrawi’s surgical instruments.
- Ibn Firnas’ flying contraption (above)
Q. What are the two factions of Islam?
A disagreement over succession after Mohammed’s death in 632 split Muslims into Islam’s two main sects, Sunni and Shia.
Q. Who invented soap first in Islam?
Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
Q. What did the Arabs invent?
Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the rahab, an ancestor of the violin. Modern musical scales are also said to derive from the Arabic alphabet. According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600.
Q. Who invented Islam?
Muhammad
Q. What are the six article of faith?
The Six Articles of Faith Belief in the existence and oneness of God (Allah). Belief in the existence of angels. Belief in the existence of the books of which God is the author: the Quran (revealed to Muhammad), the Gospel (revealed to Jesus), the Torah (revealed to Moses), and Psalms (revealed to David).
