The Echoes Of Ahmed Mohamed's Clock In Muslim History

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[center]As Europe languished in a Dark Age and fundamentalists burned women at the stake, [br]science and mathematics were kept alive in the Muslim world.[/center]

The Echoes Of Ahmed Mohamed's Clock In Muslim History

..... This Muslim boy who now has been invited to the White House has plans that fit exquisitely into a lengthy and layered, if bumpy and uneven, Muslim tradition of contributing to positive advances in science and technology.

Had his teacher any awareness of the longstanding commitment in the Muslim culture to beneficial contributions to science and technology–including clocks–instead of an apparent reflexive bigotry related to Mohamed’s name and religion, this educator might have seen Mohamed’s work in a more appropriate context.
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The remarkable scientific and technological contributions of Muslim culture date back more than a thousand years. For example, in the year 1000, a Muslim doctor from Cordoba, Spain, published a 1500-page encyclopedia of surgery called Al-Tasrif li-man ‘ajaza ‘an al-ta’lif, complete with colored illustrations. This fellow, Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn Abbas Al-Zahrawi (known in Latin as Albucasis), is credited for having performed the first cesarean section and for writing the first known description of hemophilia as a disease passed from unaffected mothers to their sons.

Two hundred years before Al-Zahrawi developed his encyclopedia, a mathematician in Baghdad named Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī wrote a famous algebra book, al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa’l-muqābala. His work pulled together elements from the Greek (including, literally, Euclid’s Elements) to develop a systematic approach to resolving quadratic equations. .....

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[Jeneral2885]

1. Okay here's my view

The school, the teacher, the principal, the police are all cretins for initiating such action. So is the governor who looks more like a model than a politician.

BUT!!

I agree, why should Obama butt in an inviting him to the White House? There could be 10,000 over other legal and illegal Americans who are innovators and inventors but weren't publicised due to arrest or mistreatment. Now Ahmed will become a super star. I believe he was mistreated and had his rights violated. But if I was in the POTUS or Presidential candidate's shoes, I would just have said so and not invite him over.

[L. Coyote]

2. Obama did the right thing. We won't bring about social change doing nothing. The issue needs the

attention only Obama could bring to it. This would not be a big story if Obama had not extended the invite and tweeted it himself.

This is what being a leader is all about. And this is an area where leadership can make a difference.

[L. Coyote]

3. morning kick

[GummyBearz]

4. The middle east sounds like a place of true learning

where outdated beliefs and superstitions don't hold sway over the general populous. We should strive to be more like them. Algebra sounds great!