What precisely is the greatest Muslim “contribution to science and engineering”?
The IED.
They need to study the effects of beheading in space.
RE: What precisely is the greatest Muslim “contribution to science and engineering”?
I am quoting from Wikipedia in response to this question :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_medieval_Islam
“There are several different views on Islamic science among historians of science. The traditionalist view, as exemplified by Bertrand Russell, holds that Islamic science, while admirable in many technical ways, lacked the intellectual energy required for innovation and was chiefly important as a preserver of ancient knowledge and transmitter to medieval Europe.”
“The revisionist view, as exemplified by Abdus Salam, George Saliba and John M. Hobson holds that a Muslim scientific revolution occurred during the Middle Ages, an expression with which scholars such as Donald Routledge Hill and Ahmad Y Hassan express the view that Islam was the driving force behind the Muslim achievements, while Robert Briffault even sees Islamic science as the foundation of modern science.”
“The most prominent view in recent scholarship, however, as examplified by Toby E. Huff, Will Durant, Fielding H. Garrison, Muhammad Iqbal, Hossein Nasr and Bernard Lewis, holds that Muslim scientists did help in laying the foundations for an experimental science with their contributions to the scientific method and their empirical, experimental and quantitative approach to scientific inquiry, but that their work cannot be considered a Scientific Revolution, like that which occurred in early modern Europe and led to the emergence of modern science, with the exception of Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics which is widely considered a revolution in the fields of optics and visual perception.”
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Let us give credit where credit is due (at least to the arabs)
They gave us the word ‘Algebra’ (Al-Jabr) and many of the concepts therein. Many of the names of stars are Arabic in nature. Algol, Beatleguise, Rigel, Alpharez, and many others are straight up Arabic.
The problem is that they really haven’t done anything with the knowledge nor do they want anyone else to do anything with it.