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Islamic Civilization

“Read! In the name of your Lord who created…” — Qur’an 96:1

Islam was not just a civilization in the historical sense, but a divine epistemology that refuted randomness (atheism), corrected misguidance (Christian dogma), and established causality as the foundation of the natural and rational sciences.

📚 Index of Topics

✨ Highlights

🔹 Islam and Scientific Epistemology

“Tie your camel, and trust in Allah” – A Prophetic affirmation of causal inquiry.

  • Islam affirms cause-effect relationships as part of divine qadr.
  • Christianity promotes fideism: “Lean not on your own understanding.” (Proverbs 3:5)
  • Atheism promotes randomness: “No purpose, no goal, only survival.”

📄 See: Islam Causality vs Atheist Randomness

📉 Christian Rejection of Science

  • Forbade medicine as heresy.
  • Burned ancient libraries (e.g. Alexandria).
  • Persecuted scholars like Michael Scotus, Bruno, Galileo.

📄 See: Christianity Anti-Science Impact, Europe Middle Ages Filth

🌙 Islamic Legacy in Science

  • Al-Khwarizmi → Algorithms, Algebra
  • Ibn al-Haytham → Optics, Scientific Method
  • Fatima al-Fihri → Al-Qarawiyyin (First University)
  • Al-Razi → Medical ethics, pharmacology
  • Al-Idrisi → Mapping Pluto (NASA’s tribute)

📄 See: Islam Numerals Al Khwarizmi, Experimental Method Ibn Haytham

👩‍🔬 Women in Islamic Sciences

  • Aisha bint Abi Bakr → Early hadith transmitter
  • Rufaydah al-Aslamiyyah → Field medicine
  • Maryam al-Asturlabi → Astronomy
  • Sitt al-Mahmali → Algebra
  • Fatima al-Fihri → Founded first university

📄 See: Women Scientists in Islam

🧬 Islam’s Science of Verification: Hadith

  • Science of isnad predates modern source criticism.
  • Western historians affirm that isnad methodology is more rigorous than Biblical textual tradition.

📄 See: Isnad and Science of Hadith, Islamic Medicine vs Christian Heresy

🏛 Egyptology And Misappropriation

📄 See: Ibn Wahshiyya Hieroglyphics

📜 Suggested Reading

  • House of Wisdom by Jim Al-Khalili
  • 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World
  • The Closing of the Muslim Mind (a critique from secularism’s lens)
  • Science and Civilization in Islam by Seyyed Hossein Nasr