1,143 inventions that changed the world — from algebra to the mRNA vaccine.
From al-Khwarizmi who founded algebra, to Ibn al-Haytham who understood light. From the first hospital in Baghdad to the quantum dots of a Tunisian Nobel laureate. Science is a chain — and Muslims forged it for centuries.
Islamic science is no footnote. It spans al-Khwarizmi's algebra and Ibn al-Haytham's optics to al-Zahrawi's 200 surgical instruments, from the astrolabe to the first hospital, from the cheque to the world’s oldest university.
Khutba World brings together 1,143 inventions, discoveries, and scientific breakthroughs — each based on solid sources and vividly told. From the Golden Age in Baghdad and Córdoba to modern Muslim scientists awarded Nobel and Fields prizes.
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De camera obscura
In een donkere kamer in Caïro bestudeerde Ibn al-Haytham hoe licht door een klein gaatje een omgekeerd beeld van de buitenwereld projecteert. Hij verklaarde het als eerste correct — en legde daarmee de basis voor elke camera, van de fototoestel tot je telefoon. Het Arabische 'qamara' leeft voort in het woord zelf…
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