Muslims discovered America. Get your history updates inside
 

Well there is an ancient arabic saying that goes something like this: if you live long enough you will hear it all

The link below is kind of self explanatory. Enjoy :)

Muslims discovered America, says Turkish president | World news | The Guardian

In 1492 Mohammad sailed the ocean blue .......

Indians were muslims? I mean the not Indian Indians. :)

From West, it was the vikings who discovered the America first. So Norwegian, Danish and Swedish folks.

Such a joke...

Muslims discover bestiality!!!


LiveLeak.com - Iraqi caught having sex with a donkey

Don't have to be joke, but we will never really know it

Those fuckers have done nothing. They would still be living in tents were it not for oil.

They buy technology for the appearance of having any sort of advancement but don't be fooled. Those fuckers in dresses would all just be beating women and fucking donkeys if oil was not needed. Instead they can hire the worlds best architects to build actual cities to give the illusion that they are anything at all.

Yep

Simon Jenkins: Of course the Chinese didn't discover America. | World news | The Guardian

I'm sure more reliable scientific sources can be found though, to verify this.

Why do they always use the term "discovered"?
There were people in America long before they arrived. So they need to change the word to "re-discovered".

Re-discovered is wrong too as it wasn't lost. Discovered by western folks.

Are you joking, or you are not a fan of history?

How do you discover a land where people already live.

Indian Timeline ***

http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/a...-americans.jpg

http://edschultzmsnbc.files.wordpres...-illegals1.jpg

Indian History Timeline The Indigenous People of the United States

The Indian Timeline begins with the ancient cultures of the Native Americans. The Native American Timeline then details the impact of the European colonists and settlers, the main Indian Wars. The Indian Timeline ends with the removal of the Native Americans from their homelands to the Indian reservations.

The Tribe Location Map provides an instant overview of the Indian tribes in the early 1800's. The Native American Indians are defined by their culture groups according to their location which influenced their lifestyle due to the environment and climate in different parts of North America.

Discover the information and facts about the history of the Indians via this Native American Timeline - simple to read with fast facts about the history of the Native Indians.

Indian Timeline - Stone Age to 1400's
Discover the information and facts about the history of the Indians via this Indian Timeline. This section of the Indian Timeline details key events and dates from the Pre-Historic Stone Age to the 1400's.

He's probably referring primarily to the post-Mohammed era, in which case he's mostly spot-on. But yeah, prior to that the Arabs (or their predecessors like Sumerians, Babylonians etc.) contributed a lot to science.

Maybe they discovered it, but at least we did something with it.

So it was the Muslims that brought small pox over and killed millions?

Yep seems that was stage one of their long term plan..
holey blanket campaign of 1493...

Man, sometimes I really wonder if you ever think before you post...

where's laurence of arabia when you need him?

are you referring to the debunked "blanket with small pox" military strategy?

You understand... I was kidding.

Right?

You mean like you were kidding when you argued that Paris, Britney & Lindsay will never know the priviledge of working for $8/h? Right? :)

Sounds like Turkey has their own version of Al Gore or Joe Biden ... :1orglaugh

If Columbus ever referred to a "mosque" in Cuba it was as a geographical land reference. However, I too believe lots of various folks traveled to the Americas before him ... Muslims not being one of those groups.

LOL, and where do you think the Native Americans came from originally?

Asia. And before that, Africa.

I used to scrub toilets for $8 / hour. I don't mean I worked in a restaurant and I had to clean the rest room; I mean I worked for a janitorial company called Swisher who does nothing but clean bathrooms.

Do you think Britney Spears has ever scrubbed a toilet for eight hours a day?

Paris? Lindsay?

I don't think it really matters who got here first.

The important one was Columbus. His journey united the land mass of America with Europe and the rest of the world.

If others got here first, it wasn't of any significance for a lot of reasons. But when Columbus stumbled on it was what led to true extensive colonization and the beginning of Western dominance in the world (for better or worse).

Vikings were probably here long before Columbus or any Muslims. But nobody really noticed it throughout the world at that time.

No...Columbus's expedition was THE one that formed history.

Wait till they discover Led Zeppelin. That aught to be something.

Is that the same Turkish president who's building a 1000 room palace?

Quod erat demonstrandum.

arabs only said poems ...they didn?t had any architect sense.. there were various semitic tribes that populated middle east first

most arab pagans lived in saudi arabia

Indeed !
His name is sultan Erdogan Ben Columbus :1orglaugh

and here he is

http://cdn.static-economist.com/site...6_LDP005_0.jpg


And his new castle

http://vid.alarabiya.net/images/2014...x9_600x338.png

5 Muslim Inventions That Changed The World

Coffee

Algebra

Degree-Granting Universities

Military Marching Bands

Cameras

A number of inventions were made in the medieval Islamic world, a geopolitical region that has at various times extended from Spain and Africa in the west to Afghanistan and the Indian subcontinent in the east.[1][page needed] The inventions listed here were developed during the medieval Islamic world, which covers a period from the early Caliphate to the later Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires.[2] In particular, the majority of inventions here date back to the Islamic Golden Age, which is traditionally dated from the 8th to the 13th centuries.[3][4] During this period, artists, engineers, scholars, poets, philosophers, geographers and traders in the Islamic world contributed to agriculture, the arts, economics, industry, islamic law, literature, navigation, philosophy, sciences, sociology, and technology, both by preserving earlier traditions and by adding inventions and innovations of their own

Guitar: the modern guitar is thought to have developed from the earlier Arabic instrument "Oud." Introduced through medieval Spain, the guitar was initially referred to as guitarra moresca (moorish guitar) in the 12th century.

1001inventions

They invented those things accidentally while inventing the suicide vest.

Proof please.

OK, I agree with coffee and algebra, that looks true. But the three others...

and they were gone :2 cents:

http://www.theecologist.org/siteimag.../0/0/77768.jpg

It?s hard to imagine a world without photography. Billion dollar companies like Instagram and Canon are based on the idea of capturing light from a scene, creating an image from it, and reproducing that image. But doing so is impossible without the trailblazing work of the 11th century Muslim scientist, Ibn al-Haytham, who developed the field of optics and described how the first cameras work.
The basic principle of a pinhole camera

The basic principle of a pinhole camera

Working in the imperial city of Cairo in the early 1000s, Ibn al-Haytham was one of the greatest scientists of all time. To regulate scientific advancements, he developed the scientific method, the basic process by which all scientific research is conducted. When he was put under house arrest by the Fatimid ruler al-Hakim, he had the time and ability to study how light works. His research partially focused on how the pinhole camera worked. Ibn al-Haytham was the first scientist to realize that when a tiny hole is put onto the side of a lightproof box, rays of light from the outside are projected through that pinhole into the box and onto the back wall of it. He realized that the smaller the pinhole (aperture), the sharper the image quality, giving him the ability to build cameras that were incredibly accurate and sharp when capturing an image.

Ibn al-Haytham?s discoveries regarding cameras and how to project and capture images led to the modern development of cameras around the same concepts. Without his research into how light travels through apertures and is projected by them, the modern mechanisms inside everyone?s cameras would not exist.

1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.

2 The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one.

3 A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot.

4 A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him.

5 Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV.

6 Distillation, the means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry.

7 The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. His 1206 Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

8 Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was imported there from India or China. But it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders' metal armour and was an effective form of insulation - so much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder climates such as Britain and Holland.

9 The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe's Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more complex and grander buildings. Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe's castles were also adapted to copy the Islamic world's - with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps gave way to more easily defended round ones. Henry V's castle architect was a Muslim.

10 Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are recognisable to a modern surgeon. It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make medicine capsules. In the 13th century, another Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis described the circulation of the blood, 300 years before William Harvey discovered it. Muslims doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and alcohol mixes and developed hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes in a technique still used today.

11 The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.

12 The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it.

13 The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action.

14 The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi's book, Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi's discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created the basis of modern cryptology.

15 Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with him the concept of the three-course meal - soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas - see No 4).

16 Carpets were regarded as part of Paradise by medieval Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam's non-representational art. In contrast, Europe's floors were distinctly earthly, not to say earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were "covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned". Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly.

17 The modern cheque comes from the Arabic saqq, a written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China drawn on his bank in Baghdad.

18 By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km - less than 200km out. The scholar al-Idrisi took a globe depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139.

19 Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they called a "self-moving and combusting egg", and a torpedo - a self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up.

20 Medieval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.

Who knew that a Muslim poet was a pioneer in aviation - and not just flights of fancy. Before the Wright brothers got aerodynamic, the bard Abbas Ibn Firas crafted a flying machine in 852. The lyrical engineer tried to fly his contraption from a mosque minaret in Cordoba using a loose cloak, which flopped and hey presto, the first parachute.

http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea....ibn_frinas.jpg


Since cleanliness is a central part of the Quran, it should come as no surprise that soap originates from the region. Keeping greasy hair and smelly pits at bay for centuries, Muslim brainboxes as early as 2800 B.C. were working up a lather in Babylon. Perhaps the most useful invention of all time, wouldn't you say?

http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea....soap_hand_.jpg



Although the Chinese are credited with inventing saltpetre gunpowder, the Arabs figured out that the saltpetre gunpowder can be purified using potassium nitrate. In the 15th century, Arabs invented a rocket which they called a ?self-moving and combustion egg?, and they called the torpedo a ?self-propelled pear-shaped bomb?.


http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea....3/7_rocket.jpg


As the world goes camera crazy and snaps up selfies, let?s remember who we should thank for Kodak moments! Ibn al-Haytham, the ?father of optics,? was the first person to realise that light enters through the eye and with this knowledge, he crafted the first pinhole camera. The world has been anything but camera-shy since.


http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea....ine_orange.jpg

With scorching temperatures and a plethora of desert creepy crawlies, it?s no wonder that the Arabs devised the first vaccinations. Muslim Indians brewed a successful vaccination for smallpox as early as 1000 BC but it wasn?t until the wife of the British ambassador in Turkey began exporting it to Europe in 1724 that it went viral.

http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea....ical_tools.jpg


Cutting edge! Countless surgical instruments in a modern medical theater were brought to us by Al Zahrawi (Father of Modern Surgery). Thanks to his monkey nibbling on his lute string, the Muslim doc discovered that catgut used for internal stitches would dissolve naturally and could also make medicine capsules.



http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea....e_interior.jpg



Islamic architecture is known to be the first style of architecture to adopt pointed arches. Europe?s gothic architecture later borrowed this characteristics for their cathedrals. The Middle East itself has moved out of its gothic teenage phase and, as shown by the Gulf, is now into opulent buildings like the Burj Al Khalifa in Dubai.

http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea....9_windmill.jpg

Not just run of the Muslim mill: The first windmill did not spin on the planes of The Netherlands, but in Arabia in 634 AD. Windmills were originally made for a Persian caliph who lived in the infinite deserts of Arabia with plenty of hot-air to to harness.

List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've read somewhere that medieval Arabian scientists even invented some kind of rockets but didn't use it for religious cause.

Ahh, the same technology that the ancient Greeks played with 1000 years before, you mean? and the same principle that the Chinese used 500 years before the Greeks.

Medicine, windmills, plaah..

West put gunpowder into best use with their guns, blitzkried (not new per se), atomic bomb, conquering wast areas, and such. Yeah, maybe others invented all kinds of shit, but we stole it well and some extra too. :)

Isn't that what summarizes the whole human specie? We are not top dogs because of our intelligence, we are top dogs because we have also means (like hands) to dominate and conquer. Although it doesn't sound as fancy as being so smart.

http://i.vimeocdn.com/video/437161754_640.jpg

http://menzene.com/wp-content/upload...neral.com_.jpg

http://www.businessstartupqatar.com/Images/bg-image.jpg

http://www.qia-qatar.com/sites/defau...16%20(2)_0.jpg

http://thepointsguy.com/wp-content/u...n-2.jpg?16593d

http://www.lngworldnews.com/wp-conte...e-LNG-Fuel.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3enNIH9eW8...ing-room-3.jpg

http://www.luxurytopics.com/chest/lu...ways%20(3).jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zrNKGiB0NP...n4luxury-8.jpg

http://www.luxuo.com/wp-content/uplo...3/04/Home1.jpg

some dumb ass always post this shit :2 cents:

At least accuracy is shit. "One people, one nation". Yeah? Like in Europe? :)

They didn't have any one people, one nation. There were number of "peoples" and nations, often making war against each other, just like in Europe.

Any 'muslim' invention prior to the 8th century is not muslim, as Islam didn't exist yet. E.g. soap mentioned above as a muslim invention, yet referred to as dating back a couple of millenia.

If you posted in this thread it is highly likely I fucked your mum and very unlikely you will profit from it.