1. 1001 Inventions/contributions: Muslim Heritage in our World
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1001 Inventions/contributions:
Muslim Heritage in our World

2. A few etiquettes of note taking
Listen to what is being said first and then write down the key point ONLY.
Give attention to the teacher. Do not spend most of your time writing.
If you missed a point, put your hand up.

3. 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.

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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Write down his name with the correct spelling

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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

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

23. Abbas ibn Firnas
Number 7:
The First solo flyer

24. 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

25. 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…

26. 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)