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1001 Islamic Inventions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the innovations-come-from-everywhere dept.

pev writes "There's a new traveling exhibition in the UK entitled 1001 inventions. It contains some of the most interesting inventions from the past few thousand years. The common theme, however, is that they all came from the Islamic world and not the west. In some cases [the list is] quite surprising. For the lazy, the Independent newspaper in the UK printed their top 20 from the exhibition."

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  1. I, for one, am not impressed ... by Culture · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    by this list. No pron, no sugery sweet snacks, nothing that contributes to console games, no file sharing, etc. etc. Simply put, nothing that makes our civilization the wonder that it is.

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  2. Where's your islamic god now? by Ritontor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In 624 Abu Bakr (Muhammad's daily companion and one of his first believers and successor of Muhammad) gave Muhammad his daughter Aisha when she was six years old, although the actual marriage was not consummated until she was nine. This fact is uncontested by all Muslim scholars and chroniclers without exception.

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