Islmaic Achievements and Muslim Contributions and Their Spread

The Muslim Empire grew to encompass a wide range of territory. Their empire included India, Greece, and Rome in addition to many other places. The Muslims were much more advanced than other nations because of their tolerance of other cultures. This enabled them to adopt many of the developments and innovations of the people whose land they conquered. They were able to attain intelligence at the highest level of the time from a specific area they conquered whose main focus of study was that field.

The Muslim people made many exceptional achievements and great contributions that spread to and affected the entire world, particularly Europe. Several factors encouraged them to pursue experimentations and developments in different fields. First and foremost, the faithful Islamic people had to know the direction of Mecca as well as the time of day in order to know when and in which direction to pray. This meant they had to rely on mathematicians and astronomers to accurately calculate these. The rulers of the Muslim Empire wanted trained physicians treating them when they became ill. This encouraged much research and study in the medical field. They had a deep curiosity about the world around them and everything in it. This strong curiosity can be traced all the way back to Mohammed himself, who was very curious about the world and was always searching for a real truth.

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The Islamic capital, Cordova, was a popular center of learning. It was described as “jewel of the world.” European students were attracted to its many colleges and universities because of their standard of learning. In addition to the libraries in the universities, there were many other libraries and bookstores in Cordova. The total po...

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...s they adapted the developments and innovations of the people they conquered and were able to learn from them. They were able to reach the highest level of knowledge and make further developments from there because of their acceptance of different customs of people. Their contributions impacted the entire world, and at the time, particularly Europe. The developments made everyday life simpler, as well as further advanced the knowledge and life styles of other people.

As a result, we see that the Islamic civilization reached incredible heights of creativity and entered an age of expansion and discovery even as the political state of the civilization was declining. Their contributions made incredible impacts on society that even lasted until today. Many of their advancement and innovations are used or have been modified and built upon and are still used today.