Islamic science and scienctists

Hello everybody ,
I had a question in my mind for sometime now, and i wanted to ask how really were the Muslim scientists in the Islamic golden ages influential on today's modern science? or what is their influence on modern science?
This is also a chance to gain more knowledge about the Islamic science and scientists, if you can state one or more scientist and his achievements in his own fields.......
Thanks all,
yours,
Kaznder

Originally posted by kaznder Hello everybody , I had a question in my mind for sometime now, and i wanted to ask how really were the Muslim scientists in the Islamic golden ages influential on today's modern science? or what is their influence on modern science? This is also a chance to gain more knowledge about the Islamic science and scientists, if you can state one or more scientist and his achievements in his own fields....... Thanks all, yours, Kaznder

There's no such thing as 'Islamic' (or Christian or whatever) science.

Al-Khwarizmi was a Zoroastrian, according to Islamic sources.

I don't think he means that.

It's OK to talk of Muslim scientists or Christian rockstars or Mormon full-backs or Hindu bridge-players, because someone can be a Muslim and a scientist: but he doesn't study 'Muslim science'.

The problem really is that 'Islamic' is too broad for that to work. We talk reasonably happily about 'Greek science' because everyone knows we mean ancient Greek science - i.e. the state of science in the Hellenistic world between, say, Heraclitus and Ptolemy, as written in (ancient) Greek. Basically the same is true of Egyptian mathematics and Roman engineering.

the contribution of islamic civilisation was important in many fields of science, arts, mathematics etc.

For more details please go to the following website:

http/muslim-canada.org/ch13hamid.html