Scientific contributions of the islamic medieval period to the West
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2018
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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During the Medieval period, Muslims established one of the most impressive civilizations in the history of mankind. The Islamic civilization's development was garlanded with the quest for knowledge and sciences, which was upheld by the principals of Islam and Hadith along with the Arabic language. Muslim scientists and thinkers made pioneering contributions to sciences, which touched all aspects of their lives and resulted social, cultural, and intellectual prosperity and urbanization. Thereby spreading their beam of culture, ideas, thoughts, and sciences that influenced the whole world especially Europe. Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham was one of the most prominent Muslim physicists, whose theories and experiments revolutionized this field and brought out the science of optics to light. Not to mention his notable works in different scientific fields, which laid the groundwork and formed several famous modern theories. The aim of this dissertation is to recall the scientific contributions of Ibn Al-Haytham and other Muslim scientists, and to prove the great effect it had on the rise and advance of the Western modern civilization. Despite that this fact has been subjected to various attempts of distortion by many Western scholars, who tried to hide the Islamic scientific victories behind the guise of the Western domination and spotting the lights on the Greek works as the first source of all sciences. But history was keen to keep all evidences that disapproved all the Western libeling and allegations.
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Civilizations, Scientific contribution, Optics, Influence