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Historically many civilizations are named after the region where that civilization flourished

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Such as the ancient Egyptian ,Mesopotamian Mayan civilizations

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In the modern world we may speak about the Sinic or Chinese civilization,and this is common

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Some civilizations were named after the religion of the majority of its population

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the most salient and conspicuous example,

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is the Islamic civilization

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and that’s because Islam represented everything in that civilization

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One of the unique characteristics of the Islamic civilization

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is its emphasis in the middle path the middle way in everything

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As an example,if we take the political ideology of the 20th century,

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capitalism and communism

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which were fiercely battling each other.

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Capitalism focused on individuals’freedom,on liberty and things of that nature

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Communism,on the other hand,concentrated on the collective good

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and performed massacres

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and massive human rights violations in the name of the collective good

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Religion or Islam as a religion is a systematic way of living,

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meaning that is going to organize the whole aspect of life of human beings

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being it education,economics,social life,cultural output;

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all that is to be guided by the Islamic world view

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Hence,politics specifically it is not out of Islam as a religion

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Now,if we look at those civilizations…Islam has made a lot of changes.

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From people that are very self-sustained,that talk about their own group of people

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Now they are very opened they’ve became more global

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they accept everybody.Is like a big family . Before,people were very reluctant,

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today people are more open-minded

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that we should share with each other,we should care for each other

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The civilization of Islam has made a lot of people feel secured,

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feel peace,because that is what Islam wants everybody to feel

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Peace is for everybody,justice is for everybody

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So,the civilization of Islam is not only talking about rituals,

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prayer,family,but it talks about the whole system of the society

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When we speak about the history of science in Islamic civilization,

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we are telling other narrative

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a narrative that has never been told,

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one that is absent from most western circles and even some Muslim ones

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A story of breathtaking science that was produced by Islamic civilization

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A story that will fill the gap that has been created by many history books,

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especially on the history of science

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A gap not of a decade of two,but of more than a millennium 

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of diligent work and scholarship

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Actually,many scholars of civilization and sociologists

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have data of the number of geniuses in different regions and different civilizations

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And it is interesting that is in this period 

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that most history books admitted that we find the preponderance of geniuses in Islamic civilization

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Non-muslins,particularly in western countries are suffering from suicide.Why?

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Because they are focusing,maybe,on the material existence.

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How about the other side of the human being?

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Islamic architecture is a very important aspect of Islamic civilization

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this is so because Islamic architecture is a framework 

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or a physical logos of the Islamic civilization;it is its identity it is its soul.

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Islamic architecture is the type of architecture whose multiple functions 

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entitles extensive forms inspired primarily by Islam

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its message,its teachings,worldview,its system

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It is a framework of Muslims lives activities.

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And we know that life in Islam is a form of worship

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so,we cannot separate between life and worship as far as Muslims are concerned

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It is maybe because of this,that Sinan,

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one of the greatest architects in the history of Islamic civilization,said

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that architecture is one of the most difficult professions

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and one that wants to practice it correctly must be first of all pious

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It is most interesting that many of the scientific discoveries 

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that are usually attributed to western scientists today

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were actually developed or invented centuries earlier 

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by Muslim scientists in the golden age of Islamic civilization

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One of the examples,maybe that of the experiments on method that is usually attributed to Roger Bacon

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but what many don’t know,that someone who is also named the father of chemistry,Jabir Ibn Hayyan,

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said that the first accentual in chemistry is that you should perform practical work 

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and conduct experiments

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for him who do not perform practical work and do not conduct experiments 

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will never attain the least degree of mastery

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He also said that scientists do not rejoice in the abundance of material 

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but rather in the excellence of their experimental methods

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If we come to the field of mathematics,

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we will find the sloo of Muslim scholars and scientists developing mathematical concepts

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When we talk about the Zero,or we talk about negative numbers,or decimals,or trigonometry

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A lot of that was done by Muslim scientists.

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But unfortunately a lot of this is omitted by most of scientific literature today

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When we talk about earth science and geology,

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usually we talk about James Hutton

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But what many don’t know also,that Al-Biruni made some amazing statements 

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about geology and earth science

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and this was seven centuries before Hutton

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If we take Newton,for example,and his laws of motion.Many Muslim scholars,

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actually were starting to develop

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some of those same laws,such as Al-Biruni,

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such as Ibn Sina,and as youcan see most of these scholars were polymaths

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so they had contributions on all these different fields

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in Astronomy,in Mathematics,in Geology,maybe in the Optics,in Medicine,

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When you talk about medicine,many of the books that were written by Muslim scholars

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were used in universities centuries after the deaths of those Muslim scholars

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The Islamic civilization is not just talking about the physical development 

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but also the spiritual development And also the mental development

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Always remember that Islamic civilization has nothing to do with just physical 

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development but is a balanced development

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body,mind and soul,to make us better persons

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As Islamic civilization stresses the middle path,

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the focus,in addition to the divine was on the human being

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the human being as the creation of Allah

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,the creation that He honored and He required to construct and build life here on Earth

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the human being that would create a human civilization,

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a civilization that focus on the human being

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as the subject of development;a civilization by humans and for humans

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that realized and respect humanity,

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that focus on important subjects like justice and social equality and freedom

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things that Allah Almighty commanded in the Quran 

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and through the teachings of Prophet Muhammad –pbuh-

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On the other hand,He forbids vices like injustice,

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like violation of people’s rights

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With such a focus is no wonder that Islamic Civilization 

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flourished and did so for centuries

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and that even people of other faiths had their place in that civilization

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and were able to make immense contributions in Islamic civilization

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because it was a civilization of faith and a civilization for humanity