What the ancients did for us- Muslim Arabs- Part 1

The early Muslims are credited with inventing distillation and could distil just about anything - from alcohol to perfume. Hygiene is very important in the Muslim world so they invented and manufactured soap - centuries before the West - and hundreds of bathhouses were built throughout Muslim cities. They understood the fundamentals of light and how we see, and gave us the camera obscura. They invented algebra and worked out the angle of the tilt of the earth. They built the first windmill, pioneered the concept of the crank rod, and designed the first ever torpedo. Muslim creativity also led to the invention of a unique instrument called the astrolabe -- it could find the direction of Mecca, tell the time and, with the help of the stars, navigate you across deserts and oceans. But perhaps most important of all they pursued the cause of knowledge, translating and preserving the works of the ancients and building the world's largest libraries -- their 'houses of wisdom'.

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[footballover01]

it is so easy to see how media affects people minds from early ages, and how people reject to refer to authentic sources within their reach, it is basically the human illness of being stubborn.

btw the vid. is quite nice and informative, thanx <3

[STRENGTH0F1SLAM]

PROVES THOSE WRONG WHO SAY ISLAM IS BACWARDS ISLAM WAS REVLUTIONARY FROM THE BEGING

[businesseast]

she is beautiful

[Treckorz]

This is amazing!!!!!!!!

[TheAlexagius]

@STRENGTH0F1SLAM it was but now idk why but it seems to have an issue with sceince? maybe it threatens there religious beleifs who knows

[Ibringthetruth1]

@STRENGTH0F1SLAM

what does religion have with this? pfft

[Marduniya]

@netwiz2 I am aware they were all Muslim, but they were not all Arab...the majority were not even Arab. The scientists and mathematicians discussed in this video were Persian, for example.

[netwiz2]

@Marduniya the title of the episode was "What the Islamic World Did

for Us, ".....this name added later, the episode was talking about how Islamic scholars helped in bringing up civilization, and that didn't include just Muslim Arabs, but Persians and even Muslims from Europe

[Rachulie]

@Busticate not really. buddhists spread violence? think not. check out the south park episodes about if religion was dead. nothing changes. only the subject which is argued changed. think more objectively

[Rachulie]

oh WHY do ppl trip out about muslims? wake up! morons did the same thing to russians in the 50s. americans freaked about irish immigrants in the 1800s. why would muslims be immune to such morons? s.s.d.d.

[LOCITIPRODUCTION]

one name Al Jebra

[Marduniya]

The title of the video is "Muslim Arabs", yet the man is speaking about Khoujandi, a Persian astronomer and mathematician, not Arab.

Secondly, the first astrolabe was built by Farazi, whom was also probably Persian.