10 MUSLIM INVENTIONS

COFFEE

• Coffee was first brewed in Yemen
• It was founded in the 9th century.
• Used to help Sufis stay up during-
• -late night devotions.

UNIVERSITY

• Fatima al Firhi, a princess and her sister,
• created the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University.
• It's still operating after 1,200 years.
• Hassani hopes the center will inspire young girls.

ALGEBRA

• Word Algebra came from "Kitab al-Jabr Wa I-Mugabala"
• That treatise means "The Book of reasoning and balancing."
• Al-Khwarizmi was the 1st to introduce raising a number to a power.

OPTICS

• Founded by the same guy who discovered cameras.
• The most important advances in optics came from Muslims.
• They proved humans see by light reflecting on their eyes.

MUSIC

• Modern scales derive from the Arabic alphabet.
• Instruments arrived in Europe from the Middle East
• Sent Europe the lute, and the rahab, an ancestor of the violin.

TOOTHBRUSH

• Prophet Mohammed popularized to 1st toothbrush.
• It was made in 600.
• It was made of a Meswak tree twig.
• Used to freshen his breath.

THE CRANK

• Discovered by Al-Jazarin in the 12th century
• Founded the revolutionary crank-
• -connecting rod system.

HOSPITALS

• 1st medical center, Ahmed ibn Tulun Hospital
• It was founded in 872 in Cairo.

FLYING MACHINE

• Abbas ibn Firnas 1st attempted to construct
• And a fly a flying machine.
• He inspired the famous Leonardo da Vinci 100 years later.

CAMERAS

• Also invented by Ibn al-haytham.
• Founded in the early 1000's in Cairo.
• Also developed the scientific method.
• While under house arrest, he studied light.