[antiRepublicrat]

As most real scholars see it, islam has contributed nothing to mankind since its inception.

Muslim countries were a relative center of culture, learning and science for a few centuries after Islam was fairly well established. Their mathematical and medical contributions alone were pretty impressive (look where we get the words "algebra" and "cipher"). Translations of many Muslim works were used as university textbooks in Europe well into the middle of the last millennium, hundreds of years after they were first written. In contrast, at the time Europe/Christianity was just getting into its dark ages, producing practically nothing.

On the other hand, Muslim contributions seem to have tapered off to pretty much nothing after the 13th century.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Muslim countries were a relative center of culture, learning and science for a few centuries after Islam was fairly well established. Their mathematical and medical contributions alone were pretty impressive (look where we get the words "algebra" and "cipher").

These "contributions" were taken from conquered people. They were not original to Islam.

[CobaltBlue]

Dig a little deeper and you'll discover the real sources of zero, chemistry, astronomy, and most of the other wonders that are now attributed variously to Arabs or Muslims.

Distillation? Known at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro; also by the ancient Egyptians.

Astronomy? Egyptians and Greeks.

Chemistry? Ditto.

Mathematics, including what we call "algebra"? Chinese, Greeks and Indians.

Real scientists are almost always willing to tell you that they are "standing on the shoulders" of those who came before them.

[A. Pole]

In contrast, at the time Europe/Christianity was just getting into its dark ages, producing practically nothing.

The cultural centers of Christianity were in the Greek speaking East - where the first Ecumenical Councils took place and where the Greek Fathers of the Church worked. Muslims conquered those lands and until they ruined them, they benefited from the knowledge of the enslaved population.

[Publius6961]

Translations of many Muslim works were used as university textbooks in Europe well into the middle of the last millennium, hundreds of years after they were first written.
A more accurate statement would be Translations of many Muslim copies of works created by peoples and cultures they had overrun by war and search for slaves and booty...

On the other hand, Muslim contributions seem to have tapered off to pretty much nothing after the 13th century.
By sheer coincidence (D'OH!) about the time their success at "conquering" sort of took a dive and islam had been pretty much stopped in its tracks.
No muslim conquered area ever produced anything distinctly muslim in the sciences or technology once the blanket of absolute submission and snuffing out of individual initiative was instituted.
They were merely very good librarians and exploiters of other people's intellectual products.