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Hispano-Moresque ware: This was a style of Islamic pottery created in Arab Spain, after the Moors had introduced two ceramic techniques to Europe: glazing with an opaque white tin-glaze, and painting in metallic lusters. Hispano-Moresque ware was distinguished from the pottery of Christendom by the Islamic character of its decoration. [107]
This translation was possibly the vehicle by means of which the Hindu numerals were transmitted from India to Islam. Biologists , neuroscientists , and psychologists (654–728) Ibn Sirin Muhammad Ibn Sirin ( Arabic : محمد بن سيرين) (born in Basra ) was a Muslim mystic and interpreter of dreams who lived in the 8th century.
The elephant clock was one of the most famous inventions of al-Jazari.. Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī (1136–1206, Arabic: بَدِيعُ الزَّمانِ أَبُو العِزِّ بْنُ إسْماعِيلَ بْنِ الرَّزَّازِ الجَزَرِيّ, [ældʒæzæriː]) was a Muslim polymath: [2] a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer ...
Essam E. Khalil, Egyptian engineer and professor at Cairo University.; Essam Heggy, Egyptian NASA scientist. [14]Edward Said, Palestinian-Lebanese-American, a former professor of literature at Columbia University, a literary critic, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...
Al-Hassani established, and is Honorary President of, the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation, UK (FSTC Ltd). Through FSTC his work promoting the cultural roots of science, and especially that of the Muslim Civilisation, has spread across the globe with initiatives such as www.muslimheritage.com and the 1001 Inventions global education initiative and more recently the "1001 ...
Ahmed, Akbar (2002). "Ibn Khaldun's Understanding of Civilizations and the Dilemmas of Islam and the West Today". Middle East Journal. 56 (1): 5. Khan, Zafarul-Islam (15 January 2000). "At The Threshold Of A New Millennium – II". The Milli Gazette. Gari, L. (2002). "Arabic Treatises on Environmental Pollution up to the End of the Thirteenth ...
A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [1]During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was an important contributor to the global cultural scene, innovating and supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.