I may be naive but I really dont know of any great inventions/discoveries brought to the world by Muslims or arabs. Would you guys be kind enough to start naming a few.
Of course ignorance is one of the reasons, but cultural separation and "massaging of history" that has happened over thousands of years might be blamed too. I know arabs contributed a lot in the area of mathematics, some forms of warfare - but that's it. There is almost no focus on arab history in western classes, so I guess that is to blame - just like we learn little about oriental philosophy. However, I found a list of some accounts ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventions_in_the_Muslim_world
How about inventions that were not discovered by Muslim Arabs? Bulldozers? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1090824112057171005&q=&hl=en
If you want you might want to start a thread addressing ":non-muslim inventions" but i guess that would be redundant.
Writing. Writing was invented independently three places in history: Sumeria, China and pre-Columbian Maya. All Western writing dates back to Sumeria, which was right where Iraq is today. And the US under Bush-Cheney has destroyed the cradle of Western civilization. Are you proud of that?
Im sorry but this was a thread to find out about islamic inventors and discoverers. Thanks for playing.
Come on fellas. a 1/4 of the worlds population is muslim or arab, there must be some good things to come out of these societies that have benefited the world.