20 Greatest Innovations by Muslims


	20 Greatest Innovations by Muslims

redhead328

4-11-2007 11:44 PM

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4-12-2007 4:10 AM

mugofcoffee

they started it all! all the good things, I mean!

4-12-2007 4:50 AM

fudzzz

hey cool! thx for this! pretty good to know...popped...and saved to memory

4-13-2007 12:15 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

They invented yogurt too. Yummy! (The Turks, I think it was.)

4-13-2007 10:57 AM

UpStateMike

They also were great to give us cannabis and opiates. Allah be praised.

4-14-2007 2:03 AM

BobbyRutan

Just as a point of accuracy, Ethiopia became a Christian nation in the 4th Century. Islam has it's origins in the 7th century.

Admittedly Europeans became acquainted with coffee in the middle east but it's origin is actually in a Christian nation (about 50% Christian 50% Islamic these days).

I'm very grateful to the person who first discovered it.

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                                              coffee to cheques and the three-course 
                                              meal, the Muslim world has given 
                                              us many innovations that we take 
                                              for granted in daily life. As a 
                                              new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely 
                                              nominates 20 of the most influential- 
                                              and identifies the men of genius 
                                              behind them Published: 11 March 
                                              2006</FONT></STRONG></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.wonderfulinfo.com/winfo/muslminv.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"> <FONT size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">1) 
                                                        Coffee</FONT></TD></tr></table></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.wonderfulinfo.com/winfo/muslminv.htm"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The 
                                                          story goes that an Arab 
                                                          named Khalid was tending 
                                                          his goats in the Kaffa 
                                                          region of southern Ethiopia, 
                                                          when he noticed his 
                                                          animals became livelier 
                                                          after eating a certain 
                                                          berry. He boiled the 
                                                          berries to make the 
                                                          first coffee. Certainly 
                                                          the first record of 
                                                          the drink is of beans 
                                                          exported from Ethiopia 
                                                          to Yemen where Sufis 
                                                          drank it to stay awake 
                                                          all night to pray on 
                                                          special occasions. By 
                                                          the late 15th century 
                                                          it had arrived in Mecca 
                                                          and Turkey from where 
                                                          it made its way to Venice 
                                                          in 1645. It was brought 
                                                          to England in 1650 by 
                                                          a Turk named Pasqua 
                                                          Rosee who opened the 
                                                          first coffee house in 
                                                          Lombard Street in the 
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