Islam's forgotten geniuses


	Islam's forgotten geniuses
JohnWaterman
1-29-2008 6:39 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4c132769-ce1a-46d5-ac93-3458d799c96a/EAFCA6F4-F68F-42BC-BC96-3A9F47D28E8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml">The untold story of Arabic brilliance should be
     a timely reminder of a proud heritage</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml">what if Darwin was beaten to the punch? Approximately 1,000
    years before the British naturalist published his theory of
    evolution, a scientist working in Baghdad was thinking along similar lines</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml"><P class="story2"> In the Book of Animals, abu Uthman al-Jahith (781-869), an
    intellectual of East African descent, was the first to speculate on
    the influence of the environment on species. He wrote: "Animals
    engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being
    eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to
    develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming
    into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their
    successful characteristics to offspring."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/AC47BD9B-44F3-4DB3-82E7-32589F8F88C9" alt="The front page from Avicenna's Canon of Medicine." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml">based on a mixture of theology and rational
    thinking, produced wonderful advances in philosophy, astronomy,
    medicine and mathematics, in particular the emergence of algebra and trigonometry</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml&page=2" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml&page=2" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml&page=2"><B>Ibn al-Natis</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml&page=2"><B>Ibn Shatir</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/29/scimuslim129.xml&page=2"><B>Ibn al-Haythem</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EAFCA6F4-F68F-42BC-BC96-3A9F47D28E8E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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