Muslim contribution to education

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Muslim contribution to education
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Testimony of the orientalists

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George Sarton's tribute to Muslim Scientists in
the "Introduction to the History of Science

• "It will suffice here to evoke a few glorious
  names without contemporary equivalents in the
  West Jabir ibn Haiyan, al-Kindi, al-Khwarizmi,
  al-Fargani, al-Razi, Thabit ibn Qurra,
  al-Battani, Hunain ibn Ishaq, al-Farabi, Ibrahim
  ibn Sinan, al-Masudi, al-Tabari, Abul Wafa, 'Ali
  ibn Abbas, Abul Qasim, Ibn al-Jazzar, al-Biruni,
  Ibn Sina, Ibn Yunus, al-Kashi, Ibn al-Haitham,
  'Ali Ibn 'Isa al-Ghazali, al-zarqab, Omar
  Khayyam. A magnificent array of names which it
  would not be difficult to extend. If anyone tells
  you that the Middle Ages were scientifically
  sterile, just quote these men to him, all of whom
  flourished within a short period, 750 to 1100
  A.D."

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John William Draper in the "Intellectual
Development of Europe"

• "I have to deplore the systematic manner in which
  the literature of Europe has continued to put out
  of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans.
  Surely they cannot be much longer hidden.
  Injustice founded on religious rancour and
  national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever.
  The Arab has left his intellectual impress on
  Europe. He has indelibly written it on the
  heavens as any one may see who reads the names of
  the stars on a common celestial globe."

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Robert Briffault in the "Making of Humanity"

• "It was under the influence of the Arabs and
  Moorish revival of culture and not in the 15th
  century, that a real renaissance took place.
  Spain, not Italy, was the cradle of the rebirth
  of Europe. After steadily sinking lower and lower
  into barbarism, it had reached the darkest depths
  of ignorance and degradation when cities of the
  Saracenic world, Baghdad, Cairo, Cordova, and
  Toledo, were growing centres of civilization and
  intellectual activity. It was there that the new
  life arose which was to grow into new phase of
  human evolution. From the time when the influence
  of their culture made itself felt, began the
  stirring of new life.

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W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Surveys The
Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe Edinburgh,
England 1972 p.84

• . "Because Europe was reacting against Islam it
  belittled the influence of Saracens Muslims and
  exaggerated its dependence on its Greek and Roman
  heritage. So today an important task for us is to
  correct this false emphasis and to acknowledge
  fully our debt to the Arab and Islamic world".

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Latinised names of Muslim scholars
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Setting the record straight!
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• What is Taught The first mention of man in
  flight was by Roger Bacon, who drew a flying
  apparatus. Leonardo da Vinci also conceived of
  airborne transport and drew several prototypes.
• What Should be Taught Ibn Firnas of Islamic
  Spain invented, constructed and tested a flying
  machine in the 800's A.D. Roger Bacon learned of
  flying machines from Arabic references to Ibn
  Firnas' machine. The latter's invention antedates
  Bacon by 500 years and Da Vinci by some 700 years.

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• What is Taught Glass mirrors were first produced
  in 1291 in Venice.
• What Should be Taught Glass mirrors were in use
  in Islamic Spain as early as the 11th century.
  The Venetians learned of the art of fine glass
  production from Syrian artisans during the 9th
  and 10th centuries.

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• What is Taught Isaac Newton, during the 17th
  century, discovered that white light consists of
  various rays of colored light.
• What Should be Taught This discovery was made in
  its entirety by al-Haytham (11th century) and
  Kamal ad-Din (14th century). Newton did make
  original discoveries, but this was not one of
  them.