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notes on Islamic science

Date: March 28, 2003 | 24 Muharram 1424 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: science
In a recent comment left on my blog, Umair Salam pointed out that a scholar I had mentioned was from Basra, Iraq, a city that is much in the news lately.

Inspired by this, I did a little research to see if any other prominent Muslim thinkers had come from Basra. Because of my interest in science (I have a bachelor's degree in physics) I decided to focus on ibn al-Haytham (965-1030 C.E.), a Muslim physicist and mathematician.

Ibn al-Haytham was born in Basra but later lived in Egypt. His most lasting contributions are in the field of optics. He overturned the existing Greek idea that light was generated by the eyes and provided the first correct explanation of vision. He is also credited with being the first to develop the camera obscura.

Al-Haytham provides a biography of ibn al-Haytham. Universality and Modernity of Ibn al-Haytham's Thought looks at his lasting contributions. Alhazen, the Islamic Scholar provides selections from ibn al-Haytham's works (Alhazen is the Latinized version of his name). Finally, Arabic Civilization: Physics discusses ibn al-Haytham's use of the modern scientific method and provides an interesting comparison between him and Isaac Newton.
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umair said: Total comments: 51   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

very good find, i loved the article on Ibn al-Hay-tham on http://www.freearabvoice.org/ I hadn't heard of him before...but that's not surprising...we need to learn a lot about our history/civilization! jazakAllah sis wink

~ Posted at March 28, 2003 07:59 PM | Comment Permalink
Aziz Poonawalla said: Total comments: 3  


Don't forget that Algebra was invented by a Yemeni scholar - "al-Jibr"

~ Posted at March 30, 2003 08:05 AM | Comment Permalink
one of the top five commentors on this blog! Zack Ajmal said: Total comments: 112   gold stargold stargold stargold stargold star

Originally posted by Aziz Poonawalla -


Don't forget that Algebra was invented by a Yemeni scholar - "al-Jibr"

 Well, actually, algebra was invented by Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in his treatise Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala . He was born in Baghdad.

~ Posted at March 30, 2003 05:35 PM | Comment Permalink

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