Dark Ages Of Islam Essay

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Introduction A thousand years back Muslims were the colossal light bearers of global scientific research (Mohamed, 2008). During the Medieval Ages or the Dark Ages as known by the present times, there used to exist brilliant scholars who indulged themselves in various fields like medicine, astronomy and so forth. Due to these dark ages of Europe the works of these scholars and scientists went unnoticed, because all the focus was on the European continent and not on the Muslim region that whatever inventions made by these great scholars had no value or whatsoever in the eye of the World. Muslims societies were driven more than anything, by innovation. Its mathematicians made variable based math and calculations that would empower the structures of PCs, and the formation of encryption. Its astronomers investigated the sky, named the stars, and prepared for space travel and investigation for the future. Its physicians inspected the human body, and discovered new cures for diseases (Al-Hassani, 2007). Research Question Why were the Muslim scientists who contributed much to civilization, were unnoticed to the world? Literature Review This article focuses on the Golden age of Muslim world, and how it …show more content…

Al-Zahrawi developed an instrument named Al-Mishab for squashing these. Remarking on this, Lewis and Spink, late interpreters of Al-Zahrawi's book, depicted the innovation of the instrument: "this gadget of Abulcasis seems to have been in a way a genuine lithotripter" [A stone pulverizing machine used to smash kidney stones and gall stones]. Ibn-Zuhr, a twelfth century Seville doctor enhanced this gadget by adding a diamond toward the end of the steel rod. And additionally, Al-Zahrawi likewise made a blade to perform cyst lithotomy. A large number of these instruments are still utilized today like the semi-circular end that was designed to pull the fetus from its mother (Al-Hassani,

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