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News report about 1001 Inventions exhibition at the Museum of Croydon in London. Broadcast in 2007 by Islam Channel (UK). (Copyright Islam Channel.) 1001 Inventions is a global educational initiative that promotes awareness of the scientific and cultural achievements of Muslim civilisation during the Middle Ages and how those contributions helped build the foundations of our modern world. Working with worlds leading academics, 1001 Inventions engages with the public through educational media ...

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In the 8th century, potters working in what is now Iraq developed a mysterious process called "Lustre". This gave an extraordinary metallic sheen which rivals even precious metals in its effect. All but turning objects of Clay into Gold... Featuring Adam Hart-Davis. (c) BBC TV -------------- 1001 Inventions is a global educational initiative that promotes awareness of the scientific and cultural achievements of Muslim civilisation during the Middle Ages and how those contributions helped ...

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Note: This video is in Arabic Coverage of the 1001 Inventions project by Al-Jazeera Television. (Copyright Dunia Media.) There is a wealth of information available online about Muslim civilisation, including the world renowned 1001inventions.com and MuslimHeritage.com which receive hundreds of thousands of hits every week. -------------- 1001 Inventions is a global educational initiative that promotes awareness of the scientific and cultural achievements of Muslim civilisation during the ...

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Jim Al-Khalili is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Surrey in England, where he also holds a Chair in the Public Engagement in Science. The Professor is also an accomplished author and broadcaster who has presented TV documentaries for the BBC. He has been granted an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association - one of only 80 people to receive that honour in the last 200 years. In this interview, Professor Al-Khalili discusses his interest in science and his ...

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In the Middle Ages, great advances occured in the Muslim world, which ushered in a new age of cutting-edge healthcare. The first modern hospital was built in 874 CE in Cairo and provided free medical treatment for all patients. During the 10th century, leading Adalusian physician Al-Zahrawi was responsible for inventing more than 200 sophisticated surgical tools, and many of the instruments used by surgeons today are very similar to those invented more than 1000 years ago. Al-Zahrawi was ...

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9th century chemists like Jabir (Geber), Al Kindi (Alkindus), Al Razi (Rhazes) and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) changed the way we live our lives.These scholars evolved chemistry from an occult art (alchemy) into a scientific discipline. For example, Al-Kindi's "Book of the Chemistry of Perfume" describes more than 100 methods and recipes for making perfumes. Learn how these ideas are still used to make expensive perfumes from the South of France. Chemists from Muslim civilisation developed and ...

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Note: This video is in Arabic. Coverage of the 1001 Inventions exhibition at the Museum of Croydon in London in 2006 by MBC TV. (Copyright Middle East Broadcasting.) Featuring explanations by Dr. Anne-Maria Brennan (from London South Bank University). 1001 Inventions is a global educational initiative that promotes awareness of the scientific and cultural achievements of Muslim civilisation during the Middle Ages and how those contributions helped build the foundations of our modern world ...

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Abbas Ibn Firnas (810 887 AD), was a polymath living in the Caliphate of Cordoba. He is credited with being the first man to fly thanks to his ingenious Fly machine, more than a thousand years before the Wright brothers took to the skies. Ibn Firnas is also credited as responsible for modern spectacles. He developed a method of producing colourless glass, and fashioned corrected lenses (which he called "reading stones"). ---------- Discoveries made from the 7th to 17th centuries by multi ...

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Ibn Al-Haytham (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo) also known as Alhazen is credited with developing "The Scientific Method". He was a polymath from the Muslim world who made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology, philosophy, physics, psychology and visual perception. ---------- Discoveries made from the 7th to 17th centuries by multi-faith scientists in Muslim civilisation have had a huge but ...

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Historian Bettany Hughes introduces us to the underappreciated wealth of Muslim Heritage that exists all around us in our everyday lives. She tells us how Universities, free education for children (male and female), public libraries, algebra, number theory, trigonometry, geometry, modern chemistry, the works of Greek philosophers like Aristotle and many other educational achievements came to us from Muslim civilisation. Discoveries made from the 7th to 17th centuries by multi-faith ...

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