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Al-Kindi Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDThere are brief moments in history when nature lifts its veil to the human intellect so that it may witness the majesty of divine creation and pass on the wisdom gained from this encounter to succeeding generations. One such intellect was that of Al Kindi. Abu Yusuf Yaqub Ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, one of the most celebrated of the philosophers and natural scientists of the classical age of Islam,...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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Al Masudi Professor Nazeer AhmedThe historian and geographer, Abul Hasan Ali Ibn Hussain Ibn Ali Al Masudi (895-957 CE) was a scion of an age when Islamic scholarship had overcome the challenge of Greek rationalism, and having thrown off the yoke of deductive absurdity, found its own expression in the inductive empiricism of the Qur’an. The history of this challenge and the aftermath of ensuing battles has defined the...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) – Father of Optics Submitted by Professor Ibrahim B. SyedSummary Ibn Al-Haytham (known in the west as Alhazen) which is considered to be the greatest Muslim doctor and one of the greatest researches of optics for all times. Al Haytham is born in city Basra and immigrated to Egypt during reign of Caliph Al Hakim. He is quoted as excellent astronomer, mathematician and doctor as well as one of the best commentators of the Galen and Aristotle’s...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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The Emergence of the Turks Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDSummary: History needs men and women of thought and those of action. In the 8th and 9th centuries, the Arabs, Persians, Spaniards and Africans had laid the intellectual foundation of Islam. In the 10th century, the Turks provided the primal energy to renew Islamic civilization and supplied the men and women of action who propelled it for over a thousand years. The Turks tower over the...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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Battle of Manzikert, - Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDThe Turks forced their way onto the world stage with thunderous momentum. Their galactic advance is marked by three critical events that provide historic benchmarks: the hiring of a Turkish guard by the Abbasid Caliph al Mu’tasim (833); the disappearance of the Samanid State based in Bukhara (999); and finally, the Battle of Manzikert (August 1072). After Caliph al Mu’tasim, the...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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The Assassins - Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDMore than a thousand years before modern nations established cloak and dagger intelligence agencies, the art of political assassination was perfected in West Asia. The architect of this art was Hassan al Sabbah, a shadowy character shrouded in exotic mystery about whom as much information has come down to us as misinformation. The Seljuks tilted the internal balance of power within the Islamic...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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Mahmud of Ghazna Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDHistory is infinitely elastic. The actions of one person in any age cause ripples that affect the lives of thousands who live downstream. Mahmud of Ghazna is important in Islamic history because his actions set the tone for the interaction between the world of Islam and the world of the Hindus. The tone of that interaction created a bitterness that has been exploited by extremists in the...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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Crusades, the Beginning of Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDCivilizations collide when the transcendental values that govern them are used to define identity. During the Crusades, the Christian belief that God was immanent in the person of Jesus Christ collided with the Islamic vision that God is transcendent. For the Christian world all that was holy and venerable was embodied in the Cross of the Holy Sepulcher on which Jesus is believed to have been...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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Jerusalem, the Fall of Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDThe fall of Jerusalem was the price paid by the Muslims for the continued civil wars brought on by competing Sunni and Shi’a visions of Islamic history. The Crusades, declared in 996, were an intercontinental invasion across a front line extending more than 3,000 miles from Spain to Palestine. At the time, the house of Islam was divided into three households. The Turks championed the...0 Comments 1 Shares 3K Views
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