Impact of Islam On Western Civilization.

This Article is about how muslims influenced wetsern socities. This will highlight the impact of islam on western civilization.

Major Muslim Contributors 

⮚ The list of the protagonists of this intellectual and scientific adventure  of creation of knowledge and its spread westward include:

⮚ Al-Khwarizmi:  

⮚ Mathematician and astronomer, born around 783 near the Aral  Sea in modern-day Uzbekistan. He was affiliated with the House  of Wisdom, and his star tables and works on arithmetic, algebra,  the astrolabe, and the Hindu-Arabic numerals profoundly  influenced the West.

⮚ Al-Ma’mun:  

⮚ Abbasid caliph from 813 to 833. He took a direct interest in  science and philosophy and actively promoted scholars at the  House of Wisdom and elsewhere.

⮚ Ibn Sina (Avicenna):  

⮚ 11th-century polymath and leading Muslim philosopher and  medical scholar. His influence on Western culture lasted for  centuries, in various fields, from philosophy to medicine.

⮚ Ibn Rushd (Averroes): 

⮚ The famous Andalusian philosopher Abu ‘l-Walid Muhammed Ibn  Ahmad Ibn Rushd. He flourished in Cordoba and Marrakech in the  12th century. He exerted an enormous influence on Christian and  Jewish thought, primarily as a commentator on Aristotle, and also as  an original author in philosophy, logic, astronomy and medicine.

⮚ Al-Idrisi (Dreses):  

⮚ North African geographer and scientific director of King Roger II of  Sicily’s World Map project, completed in 1154.

⮚ Adelard of Bath:  

⮚ Pioneering explorer of the Islamic learning, who brought the wonders  of geometry, astronomy and other fields to the medieval West.

⮚ Frederick II:  

⮚ The Holy Roman Emperor and enthusiastic proponent of Arabic  culture. He was patron of Michael Scot and underwrote translations  of Ibn Rushd’s commentaries on the Aristotelian corpus.

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