TurnToIslam If you want to know@tti/2nd Edition.

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An Ottoman-era battle flag, which depicted Zulfiqar, the two-pronged sword of Sayidina Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) ~Amin!

 

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Geometric designs on the ceiling of the Bolo Hauz Mosque in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Built in 1712.

 

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Among al-Biruni's fields of research in the 1000s were:

How the earth spins on its axis

How wells and springs transport water to the surface

Combining statics and dynamics into the study of mechanics

Recording the latitude and longitude of thousands of cities, which allowed him to determine the direction towards Makkah for each city

The optical nature of shadows, particularly their use for the calculation of prayer times

Separating scientific astronomy from superstitious astrology

 

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The Ka'ba in 1910.

 

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A 13th century illustration of al-Zahrawi's surgical equipment. Although he lived and practiced in the 900s, many of the tools he innovated are still used in surgery today.

 

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A Quran folio in gold Kufic script from 9th-10th century Iran.

 

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Ibn Khaldun was a renowned polymath whose writings influenced both the Muslim world and Christian Europe.

 

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Urdu developed as a result of the Turkic conquest of parts of India in the 1200s.

 

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The Great Mosque of Gaza in the late 1800s.

 

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The first two pages of Surat Maryam from an 18th century manuscript of the Qur'an written in the Maghribi (Moroccan) script.

 

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The Bou Inania Madrasa in Fes, Morocco, as seen through one of the gates of the old city of Fes.

 

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The interior of the Hagia Sophia, when it was still used as a mosque. It was converted into a museum in 1935.

 

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An Ottoman clock tower in Mexico City.

 

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Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik al-Shabbaz) in Cairo in 1964 with the Shaykh al-Azhar.

 

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A page from Ibn Sina's "The Canon of Medicine", written in 1025.