Abbas Ibn Firnas - The First Manned Flight Video

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").

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Discoveries made from the 7th to 17th centuries by multi-faith scientists in Muslim civilisation have had a huge but hidden influence on the modern world.

Knowledge from Assyrian, Babylonian, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Persian and Roman civilisations was highly prized in the Muslim world.

Men and women scholars advanced science by building upon the ancients and making breakthroughs that paved the way for the European Renaissance.

This Golden Age of Discovery in the Muslim World (southern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and to China) took place during the so-called Dark Ages of Europe.

Muslim civilisation promoted free-thinking, rationalism and tolerance. Many scholars expressed their faith by seeking to serve society and improve quality of life for others.

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