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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40769 Gender:	inventions of the islamic world Aug 10^th, 2009 at 9:07pm imans, unthinking, poor fashion.
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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #1 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 9:25pm Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 10^th, 2009 at 9:07pm: imans, unthinking, poor fashion. the dessert course
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Reply #2 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 9:54pm

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imans, unthinking, poor fashion.

And what, pray tell, are imans? Grin

How about astrolabe, sextant, algebra, algorithms, coffee, cafes, refined sugar, modern chemistry, chainmail armour, stained-glass, mirrors, bullet cartridges, hand gun, kerosene, tar/bitumen roads (baghdad was first city with tar-paved roads), windmill, camshaft, fountain pen, syringe, equitorium, thermometer, pinhole camera, messenger pigeons, bank cheques, guitar... just to name a few...

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Reply #3 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 8:16am

coffees good - quite addictive I believe.

syringes ??
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Many of the technical difficulties which had faced those experimenting with blood transfusion were removed after 1853 by the invention of the hypodermic syringe, with its hollow pointed needle.
Credit for the evolution of this universally useful appliance is usually given to Doctor Alexander Wood (born 1817), who was appointed Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1850.

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Reply #4 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 8:40am

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9th century AD: The Iraqi/Egyptian surgeon Ammar ibn 'Ali al-Mawsili' technically invented the first such syringe in the 9th century using a hypodermic needle, a hollow glass tube, and suction to remove cataracts from patients' eyes, a practice that remained in use up until at least the 13th century and which came into renewed use in the 20th century.

(Wikipedia: Syringe#Historical_Timeline)

Nothing new that the West lie about having invented everything under the sun.

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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #5 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 9:13am Every culture exaggerates its salubrity and makes wild claims about its superiority over all others.
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Grendel Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 28080 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #6 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 9:55am astrolabe... The astrolabe was introduced to the Islamic world in the eighth and ninth centuries through translations of Greek texts.
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Reply #7 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 10:24am

sextant... In 1731, Thomas Godfrey and John Hadley independently invented the reflecting quadrant, a precursor to the sextant. John Campbell invented the sextant in 1757. The octant could only measure latitude, and not longitude. Royal Naval Captain John Campbell's sextant could measure both longitude and latitude.

Now b4 you have another coniption Aboo... it depends on what sort of sextant you are talking about.

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Grendel Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 28080 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #8 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 10:32am algebra... While the word "algebra" comes from Arabic word (al-jabr, الجبر literally, restoration), its origins can be traced to the ancient Babylonians.
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Grendel Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 28080 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #9 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 11:55am refined sugar... Indians discovered how to crystallize sugar during the Gupta dynasty, around AD 350. During the Muslim Agricultural Revolution, Arab entrepreneurs adopted the techniques of sugar production from India and then refined and transformed them into a large-scale industry.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40769 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #10 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 1:12pm any inventions from this area in the past 200 years ??
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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #11 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 2:03pm Another historic milestone for the annals of Arab innovation (if not of actual technical know-how of how to make it (ahem) happen. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose) Arab innovation and science in a nut (boom, boom) shell. http://www.canada.com/Oddities+from+this+week+business+wires/1873832/story.html
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NorthOfNorth Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 17258 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #12 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 2:36pm Hummus.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 40769 Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #13 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 9:07pm OH OH OH, I got it !!!!!!!! Suicide vests oh yes oh yes, whose your daddy??
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athos Gold Member Offline Re-educate barbarians Posts: 6406 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: inventions of the islamic world Reply #14 - Aug 11^th, 2009 at 9:27pm Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 10^th, 2009 at 9:07pm: imans, unthinking, poor fashion. “Those who think they are better then others should go to cemetery to see how the world is real, harmful of dust.” The limits of control Jim Jarmusch
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