1001 Inventions/contributions: Muslim Heritage in our World Super 7 1001 Inventions/contributions: Muslim Heritage in our World

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Known in Europe as Avicenna Ibn Sina Number 1: Known for his canon of medicine A statue of Ibn Sina in Turkey. A picture of Ibn Sina on Tajikistan money.

Ibn Sina on a stamp in Poland. Ibn Sina tower in Iran University Ibn Sina A film made on him by Hollywood.

philosophy, theology psychology, maths, physics 5A=14 books each Ibn Sina wrote 276 works Medicine, logic, Qur'an philosophy, theology psychology, maths, physics

Al Qanun/Canon of Medicine, was the most famous work used until 17th century. For 900 years people competed to celebrate his anniversary from different countries

Russian stamp Number 2: Al-Khwarizmi The father of Algebra and algorithms Algebra: the part of maths where letters/symbols are used to represent numbers in formulae and equations. Algebra named after his book: Al-Jabr wal-Muqabilah Muslims used Algebra to simply the distribution of ones inheritance money

Write down his name with the correct spelling

It is used by professionals ranging from electricians to architects to computer scientists. Used in other subjects: Economy, Science, Accounting etc. Every student will have to learn this if they do Maths, in any country in the world.

Al-zahrawi Number 3: 200 different tools He invented at least The father of modern surgery He invented at least 200 different tools for surgery. Surgery: The treatment of the body by cutting and joining.

He was the FIRST one to use catgut for internal stitches. He made them 1000 years ago, and they are still used today.

Jabir ibn Hayaan Number 4: The founder of Chemistry He started and perfected many chemistry processes: Sublimination, liquefaction, crystallisation, Distillation, purification, amalgamation, oxidation, evaporation and filtration. He discovered acids like sulphuric acid, nitric acid and more

That is the same weight of 180 bears Annual worldwide production of Sulphuric Acid stands at around 180 million tonnes. That is the same weight of 180 bears 1 tonne

Ibn Al-Haytham Number 5: Father of modern optics Optics: study of sight and the behaviour of light Ibn Al Haytham understood light comes from the sun, reflects of the object and then into our eyes

Before him the ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see

Light travels in a straight line. Camera obscura (pinhole camera) Light travels in a straight line. So the light from the top of a candle passes through the pinhole and ends up at the bottom of the screen. The light from the bottom of the candle passes through the pinhole and ends up at the bottom.

Ibn Battuta Number 6: Greatest solo traveller He was 21, when he set of on his journey from his home in Morocco. The year was 1325 and he travelled for 29 year journey He travelled over 75,000 miles, figure surpassed by any individual traveller. Went through over 44 countries.

Ibn Battuta is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time He met scholars, leaders, became a judge and much more. He gave us rare accounts of countries which no one had given eg. West Africa, Mali

He travelled 3x more than Marco Polo (Italy) who was the first westerner to China (with his father and uncle)

Abbas ibn Firnas Number 7: The First solo flyer

BUT 1000 years before them The Wright Brothers Not the wrong brothers In 1903 the Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane. BUT 1000 years before them

Aged 47 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wood. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. 23 years later aged 70, using silk and eagles feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew for ten minutes. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. Also…

Why were the Muslims so successful? They fixed their relationship with Allah, so Allah fixed their relationship with everything else. Perfect your deen, then Allah perfects everything else. The Prophet (s.a.w) said “If leaders do not govern according to the book of Allah, you should realize this will not happen without Allah making them into groups and making them fight another” (Ibn Majah)