
Islamic Scientific Heritage
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Exploring the wonders of Islamic Scientific Heritage and its timeless contributions to humanity. Join us on a journey through history and innovation.
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The Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus is a pearl of the Muslim world, where legendary scholars like Al-Ghazali, Ibn Taymiyyah, and Ibn Arabi once resided. A beacon of Islamic learning and spiritual heritage. 🕌✨ #Damascus #IslamicHistory #Scholars #syria
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🚨 ATTN. New Jersey: MIKIE SHERRILL… - Refuses to commit that she won’t raise New Jersey’s sales tax. - Her plan will “cost you an arm and a leg, but if you’re a good person, YOU’LL DO IT.” As Governor, Mikie Sherrill will make YOU PAY! Vote AGAINST her on 11/4.
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The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said : “This matter will certainly reach every place touched by the night and day. Allah will not leave a house or residence but that Allah will cause this religion to enter it, by which the honorable will be honored, and the disgraceful will be
Shaykha Nakata Kaori — Japan’s First Female Muslim Scholar 🇯🇵🕌 She translated Tafsir al-Jalalayn and many classical Islamic works into Japanese, opening doors for generations to come. May Allah have mercy on her and grant her the highest place in Jannah. 🤲🕊️
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Little Yusuf, a Quran student, was caught napping. He smiled shyly and said, "I only slept a little..." 🥲
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Shaykha Nakata Kaori — Japan’s First Female Muslim Scholar 🇯🇵🕌 She translated Tafsir al-Jalalayn and many classical Islamic works into Japanese, opening doors for generations to come. May Allah have mercy on her and grant her the highest place in Jannah. 🤲🕊️
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🌾Prostration of gratitude after harvest in Anatolia (Türkiye), 1952.
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🌍📷 Did you know? 🌙 Over 1,200 years ago, a descendant of Samura ibn Jundab — companion of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ — built the first astrolabe in the Islamic world and mapped the stars and time like no one before him. Meet Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, an Arab Muslim
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📜 On this day – October 2, 1187: Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi conquered Jerusalem.
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🚨Over 1,000 years ago, this Central Asian Muslim genius changed how we understand the tilt of our planet 🌍✨ Meet Abu Mahmud Khojandi (c. 940), a Muslim astronomer and mathematician who constructed the first huge mural sextant, intended to determine the Earth's axial tilt to
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In 1268, he journeyed to Qazvin, Isfahan, Baghdad and later Konya in Anatolia. This was a time when the Persian poet Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi (Rumi) was gaining fame there and it is reported that Qutb al-Din also met him. The last part of Qutb al-Din's active career was
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Qutb al-Din Shirazi (d.1311), was a persian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, Chemist and Sufi poet. He received his Kherqa (Sufi robe) from his father at age of 10. In 1284, he presented his models of planetary motion and also discussed the possibility of heliocentrism. He
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🚨 Imagine this: In the 13th century, a Muslim scholar debated heliocentrism – 300 years before Copernicus. ✨ Meet Qutb al-Din Shirazi – the Persian Muslim polymath who was an astronomer, mathematician, chemist, physician & Sufi poet. 🧵 His mind was centuries ahead 👇
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Al-Zahrawi's pioneering contributions to the field of surgical procedures and instruments had an enormous impact in the East and West well into the modern period. his surgical instruments are still used today to treat people. Al-Zahrawi was a court physician to the Andalusian
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Al-Zahrāwī (Abulcasis) (d.1013), was an Arab Muslim physician, surgeon, and chemist from Andalusia. He was the greatest surgeon of his time. He is also known as the 'father of surgery'. His principal work is 'Kitab al-Tasrif', an encyclopedia of medical practices. Al-Zahrawi's
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🚨 Meet Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) — the Father of Surgery 🩺🔪 📚 His 30-volume Kitab al-Tasrif became Europe’s standard medical text for 500 YEARS. 🛠️ Modern surgery quite literally stands on his shoulders. 🥼 The Muslim genius who shaped modern surgery. THREAD: 🧵👇
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🤔 How did Snell’s Law end up named after Snell & Descartes instead of Ibn Sahl? Ibn Sahl first described the law of refraction in 984 in Baghdad, using it to derive lens shapes with no geometric aberration. The law was “rediscovered” by Thomas Harriot in ~1602, but his
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Ibn Sahl (d. 1000), was a Persian Muslim mathematician and physicist, who flourished in Baghdad. He was the first to discover the law of refraction (Snell's law). Ibn Sahl is the first Muslim scholar known to have studied Ptolemy's Optics, and as such an important precursor to
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🤯 History got it wrong… Snell’s Law wasn’t discovered by Snell. ✨ 1,000 years ago in Baghdad, Ibn Sahl – a Muslim mathematician & physicist – was the first to discover the law of refraction (Snell's law). 🔦📐 But credit went to Snell instead of Ibn Sahl. 📚 THREAD: 🧵👇
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Apart from medicine, Ibn al-Nafis studied jurisprudence, literature, and theology. He was an expert on the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence and Ash'ari creed. Ibn al-Nafis taught jurisprudence at al-Masruriyya Madrassa. Ibn al-Nafis lived most of his life in Egypt and witnessed
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