- Muslims’ contributions to medicine could never be ignored. Every major Islamic city in the Middle Ages had a hospital; one of the largest at the time was in Cairo, which had more than 8000 beds, with separate wards for fevers, ophthalmic, dysentery and surgical cases.
- One of the leading Muslim doctors is Al Rhazes who discovered the origin of smallpox and found that one could only acquire it once in his/hers life, thus showing the existence of the immune system and how it worked. He was an early proponent of experimental medicine and is considered the father of pediatrics, in addition to being a pioneer in neurosurgery and ophthalmology.
- George Sarton, the father of the history of science, wrote: “Rhazes was the greatest physician of Islam and the Medieval Ages.”
- All the Islamic discoveries were used by the Europeans as the raw material for the Scientific Revolution. It’s tragic how Muslims’ contributions go by unacknowledged by Europe, whose renaissance couldn’t have occurred without the Islamic discoveries.
- Furthermore, cities such as Granada, Cordoba, Cairo, Baghdad etc were important epicenters of learning. A brief overview of their importance is given as under:
- Granada: Granada was the last stronghold of the region of Spain known as Andalusia, which was considered a pinnacle of culture in the western Muslim Empire. Trade from Granada included silk, ceramic, and porcelain. From 1230 until its fall to the Christians, the city was under the rule of the Nasrid dynasty. Ferdinand III of Castile had conquered all Andalusia by 1251. It was not until the year 1469, the marriage between Prince Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile that Alhambra, the Nasrid palace of Granada, fell to foreign forces. Alhambra fell to the combined forces of Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492.
- Alhambra was known as one of the greatest achievements of urban art in the Muslim world during the time of the Nasrids. The Court of the Myrtles and the Court of the Lions are the only two portions of the palace to survive to present time.
- Baghdad: In about 762 A.D., the Abbasid dynasty took over rule of the vast Muslim world and moved the capital to the newly-founded city of Baghdad. Over the next five centuries, the city would become the world’s center of education and culture. This period of glory has become known as the “Golden Age” of Islamic civilization, when scholars of the Muslim world made important contributions in both the sciences and humanities: medicine, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, literature, and more. Under Abbasid rule, Baghdad became a city of museums, hospitals, libraries, and mosques.
- Most of the famous Muslim scholars from the 9th to 13th centuries had their educational roots in Baghdad. One of the most famous centers of learning was Bayt al-Hikmah (the House of Wisdom), which attracted scholars from all over the world, from many cultures and religions. Here, teachers and students worked together to translate Greek manuscripts, preserving them for all time. They studied the works of Aristotle, Plato, Hippocrates, Euclid, and Pythagoras. The House of Wisdom was home to, among others, the most famous mathematician of the time: Al-Khawarizmi, the “father” of algebra (which is named after his book “Kitab al-Jabr”).
No wonder you lot are retarded. Muslim this and muslim that.
Wake up moron. It was contributions of people. Religion had nothing to do with the Renaissance. Nowhere does it mention that it was a “Christian” renaissance.
And regarding “Arabic” Numerals and Zero…. you do know that it was developed in India and not in your precious Arabia.
The sooner you realise that “muslim” history is just an ego hog wash of trying to get an ego boost – the better it will be for Pakistan.
The great Islamic achievements can never be excluded despite the attempts of bruised egos of the European Renaissance and British India.
From where I stand there is but one Moran, frequently visiting these boards and he is neither European, nor American and neither Pakistan.
He is but from the land who discard actual history in favour of jumbo jumbo folklore and absurdities of legend. For these people to learn from history will be a damning insight into their actual past and how thankful they must bel the innovations that they received from their north and immediate West post British Empire.
These dhotiwala’s can not come away from imprisoning over 80% of their fellow indigenous under their pitiful history of caste system how can you spew garbage at others.
Truly pitiful people with zero contribution and impact on the world will always shy from actual recorded history to learn from it as they themselves have a non existent history that hurts their inflated egos,