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ellenrr

(3,864 posts) Sat Oct 10, 2015, 04:27 AM Oct 2015

The Science of Light and Islam

This year, 2015, marks the 1,000th anniversary of the Kitab al-Manazir (The Book of Optics), a seven-volume treatise written by the Iraqi scientist Ibn al-Haytham - a pioneering thinker whose views have been crucial to our understanding of how the universe came into existence.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/science-in-a-golden-age/2015/09/optics-true-nature-light-150915111252365.html

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The Science of Light and Islam (Original Post) ellenrr Oct 2015 OP

Algebra comes from Arabian scholars. UCmeNdc Oct 2015 #1

Yes edhopper Oct 2015 #2

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)

1. Algebra comes from Arabian scholars.

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Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:28 AM

Oct 2015

So does our Arabic Numerals.

edhopper

(33,432 posts)

2. Yes

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Sat Oct 10, 2015, 09:56 AM

Oct 2015

at one time the Islamic Middle East was much more forward thinking and tolerant than it is today.

A new Enlightenment in much of the Muslim World would go a long way to ease the problems.

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