Muslim Scientists and Thinkers(700-1400.)

When Qur’an speaks so much about Science - how come the Muslims are backward?. I would mainly blame the media. The media today is in the hands of the Westerners, the Europeans - It is in their hand, They have the Satellite, they have the Television, they have the CNN, they have the BBC- It is in their hand. The media is in their hands - and whatever you read in your school books, and books which we read in college - you will read there that ‘from 8th to the 12th century it was the Dark Ages’. Dark for whom? It was dark for the Europeans - not for the world. The Arabs and the Muslims were very much advanced from 8th to the 12th century -they were very much advanced. The Europeans were backward because… they said ‘dark for the world.’ It was not dark for the world. It was dark for the Europeans. With the limited instruments and technology what we had from 8th to 12th century what discoveries the Muslim Scientists made it is unbelievable. Today, because Science is Advanced we are making so many discoveries. There with the amount of limited facilities we had, the amount of discoveries Muslim Scientists made - it’s unbelievable.

Muslim Scientists and Thinkers (700 - 1400 C.E.)

1) Name Years (C.E.)Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Geber)
Died 803 Chemistry (Father of Chemistry)

2) Musa al-Khawarizmi (Algorizm)
770 - 840 Mathematics, Astronomy, Geography (Algorithm, Algebra, Calculus)

3) Yaqub Ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (Alkindus)
800 - 873 Philosophy, Physics, Optics, Medicine, Mathematics, Metallurgy

4) Thabit Ibn Qurra (Thebit)
836 -901 Astronomy, Mechanics, Geometry, Anatomy

5) Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari
838 - 870 Medicine, Mathematics, Calligraphy, Literature

6) Al-Farghani (Al-Fraganus)
860-Astronomy, Civil Engineering

7) Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes)
864 - 930 Medicine, Ophthalmology, Smallpox, Chemistry, Astronomy

8) Abu Abdullah al-Battani (Albategnius)
868 - 929 Astronomy, Mathematics, Trigonometry

9) Abu al-Nasr al-Farabi (Al-Pharabius)
870 - 950 Sociology, Logic, Philosophy, Political Science, Music

10) Abul Hasan Ali al-Masu'di
Died 957 Geography, History

11) Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Albucasis)
936 - 1013 Surgery, Medicine (Father of Modern Surgery)

12) Muhammad al-Buzjani
940 - 997 Mathematics, Astronomy, Geometry, Trigonometry

13) Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (Alhazen)
965 - 1040 Physics, Optics, Mathematics

14) Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi (Alboacen)
972 - 1058 Political Science, Sociology, Jurisprudence, Ethics

Now we Muslims are backwards in every field , we are at the receiving end . Why ? Because we gone away from the Qur’an and Sunnah . We were on top because we were close to the Qur’an and hadith . We will be top again if we go back to the Qur’an and Hadith and follow the Islam strictly . We will be top of the world InshAllah .