SCIENCE & ISLAM 2/6 | The language of science العلم والإسلام

A BBC documentary examining the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.

Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics, or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and the refraction and decomposition of light into the colours of the rainbow.

Yet, the truth is rather greyer; and I feel it important to point out that, certainly in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier.

For, without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham.

Most people in the West will never have even heard of him.
As a physicist myself, I am quite in awe of this man's contribution to my field, but I was fortunate enough to have recently been given the opportunity to dig a little into his life and work through my recent filming of a three-part BBC Four series on medieval Islamic scientists.
Modern methods
Popular accounts of the history of science typically suggest that no major scientific advances took place in between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance.
But just because Western Europe languished in the Dark Ages, does not mean there was stagnation elsewhere. Indeed, the period between the 9th and 13th Centuries marked the Golden Age of Arabic science.
Great advances were made in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, physics, chemistry and philosophy. Among the many geniuses of that period Ibn al-Haytham stands taller than all the others.

First shown on BBC4 05/01/2009
Professor Jim Al-Khalili presents Science and Islam

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[pokemon5615]

peace be upon MUHAMMAD S. A .W

[dkamil147]

I liked this video done by an Iraqi scientist

[Madavoori]

If U guys (Athiests were ruling) .Human kind wud never have achieved this progress Because For U there wouldnt be any moral rulez...and Ull be legalizing Fornication ,pornography,homosexuality and all other human perversions.Understand that if these desires are let free We. wont progress because We ll become like animals as You see today...and A society living for desires will never progress.Idiots never recognize they are idiots.They think they are Always right while they are actually Fools.

[9zreed]

@babayevi What does MashaAllah, barakAllahfeekum mean?

J/w

[mado1o]

P.S. there is no ANY QURA'AN...it is just one HOLY QURA'AN..and Arabic is not considered as the language of ALLAH..it is just been favoured by ALLAH

[deanmullen10]

so could representing the first 12 numbers as the single digit numbers work? like its just so taking for granted that its 1-9 but is 1-9 really special? or is it just one of many ways of doing it cause lets say the digits only go up to 3 then you have:

1 2 3

10 11 12 13

20 21

and yet these numbers in our system is still only 1-9, so is 1-9 just one way of doing it?

[babayevi]

OMA (the new OMG lol) the noise that was produced during the calligraphy is a KILLER)

thanks for the upload

MashaAllah, barakAllahfeekum

[sa86D]

@forgottenmemories63 typically an atheist arrogant person !!dont listen to him even he claim he know and understands all everything