Wow. Be sure to read all of this extraordinary article. Islamic fakery has made its way into some of the most respected museums and libraries in the Western world. It just points up the intellectual poverty of the Islamic world yet again, that all this has to be faked — they don’t have enough genuine achievements to tout. And many of the inventions the Muslims take credit for are the inventions of the peoples, countries and lands they conquered. The booty from their conquests wasn’t only tangible gold, women, and monies, but intellectual theft as well.
Islam has always persecuted and silenced its intelligent men. I remind you of Averroes who for his distinction between Faith and Reason was ‘ of heterodoxy by the caliphs and forced to flee. Then, imprisoned like a criminal. Then, confined to his home and humiliated to such a degree that when rehabilitated he no longer had any desire to live and died within a few months. Not without good reason, in his famous lecture held in 1883 at the Sorbonne, Ernest Renan said that attributed the merits of Averroes to Islam would be like attributing the merits of Galileo to the Inquisition.
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“Forging Islamic science: Fake miniatures depicting Islamic science have found their way into the most august of libraries and history books. How?” by Nir Shafir, Aeon, September 11, 2018 (thanks to Steve):
As I prepared to teach my class ‘Science and Islam’ last spring, I noticed something peculiar about the book I was about to assign to my students. It wasn’t the text – a wonderful translation of a medieval Arabic encyclopaedia – but the cover. Its illustration showed scholars in turbans and medieval Middle Eastern dress, examining the starry sky through telescopes. The miniature purported to be from the premodern Middle East, but something was off.
Besides the colours being a bit too vivid, and the brushstrokes a little too clean, what perturbed me were the telescopes. The telescope was known in the Middle East after Galileo developed it in the 17th century, but almost no illustrations or miniatures ever depicted such an object. When I tracked down the full image, two more figures emerged: one also looking through a telescope, while the other jotted down notes while his hand spun a globe – another instrument that was rarely drawn. The starkest contradiction, however, was the quill in the fourth figure’s hand. Middle Eastern scholars had always used reed pens to write. By now there was no denying it: the cover illustration was a modern-day forgery, masquerading as a medieval illustration.
The full image of the 21st century fake Ottoman miniature, purporting to be from the 17th century. Allegedly from the Istanbul University Library. Photo by DEA/Getty
The fake miniature depicting Muslim astronomers is far from an isolated case. One popular image floating around Facebook and Pinterest has worm-like demons cavorting inside a molar. It claims to illustrate the Ottoman conception of dental cavities, a rendition of which has now entered Oxford’s Bodleian Library as part of its collection on ‘Masterpieces of the non-Western book’. Another shows a physician treating a man with what appears to be smallpox. These contemporary images are in fact not ‘reproductions’ but ‘productions’ and even fakes – made to appeal to a contemporary audience by claiming to depict the science of a distant Islamic past.
A fake miniature depicting the preparation of medicines for the treatment of a patient suffering from smallpox, purportedly from the Canon of Medicine by Avicenna (980-1037). Allegedly in the Istanbul University Library. Photo by Getty
From Istanbul’s tourist shops, these works have ventured far afield. They have have found their way into conference posters, education websites, and museum and library collections. The problem goes beyond gullible tourists and the occasional academic being duped: many of those who study and publicly present the history of Islamic science have committed themselves to a similar sort of fakery. There now exist entire museums filled with reimagined objects, fashioned in the past 20 years but intended to represent the venerable scientific traditions of the Islamic world.
The irony is that these fake miniatures and objects are the product of a well-intentioned desire: a desire to integrate Muslims into a global political community through the universal narrative of science. That wish seems all the more pressing in the face of a rising tide of Islamophobia. But what happens when we start fabricating objects for the tales we want to tell? Why do we reject the real material remnants of the Islamic past for their confected counterparts? What exactly is the picture of science in Islam that are we hoping to find? These fakes reveal more than just a preference for fiction over truth. Instead, they point to a larger problem about the expectations that scholars and the public alike saddle upon the Islamic past and its scientific legacy….
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While the west listensed to St. Thomas Acquinas, the Muslims would not listen to Averros — the best thinker among them.
MitchHill
5 years ago
If mr. allah and his henchman mo are the explanation of everything and all , then science and and anything that asks for an explanation or poses questions as to the why or how would be considered blasphemy. A telescope or astrolabe would be tools of the devil. The astrolabe that Columbus used had Hebrew letters inscribed on it.
Suresh
5 years ago
when you allow muslim countries to have lobbies with millions to buy out poiticians , bureaucrats , media this kind of B.S will continue
And now the crooked Macron threatens Hungary , poland for not selling out their countries to islamonazis
like he and his party has been doing in france https://tinyurl.com/y6vlqtwq
“what’s wrong with these lunatics.” INDEED! I once heard someone say: Judaism is the religion of law, Christianity is the religion of love, and Islam is the religion of lunatics!
0349 JAT
5 years ago
Just more muslim BS.
Wherever islam has touched the earth chaus, death, destruction, fear and misery has followed.
Muslims have done nothing to move any civilization forward.
Arthur Schick
5 years ago
Science, because Mo flew to the moon on his purple winged horse….
These depictions of faked Islamic science and the fact that these con tricks can be found throughout western academia has the stamp of an OIC initiative and the house of Saud all over it.
In her famous book “A God who Hates”, Dr Wafa Sultan made clear that when she eventually moved from Syria to America, she had to undergo extra training in her field of medicine before she could work because of the restrictions placed upon her original training in Syria under sharia codes. Her qualifications had to be extensively improved to modern western standards. This can also be the case with training in Pakistan as any victim of it in UK can verify.
The recent news that upon the orders of the new Ottoman sultan Erdugan Darwinism is no longer to be taught in Turkish universities but some tripe about Islam points to one reason why, out of the top 1000 universities in the world, Turkey boasts the grand total of 22 and the top one no higher than 301st.
The OIC and sandy Gulf state promoters of terrorism, this faked science and jihad, understand their target market, and it’s the usual hard left wing academic fruit loops of snowflake central who hate white people, western civilisation, culture and achievements. Here we now have visible proof of how extensive these plotters interests really are.
Perhaps it’s time to remind western academia what Islamic “scholars” actually do teach, something about the world being flat and the sun setting in a muddy puddle where strange people live ?
Excellent, Poppey; your post encapsulates the falsehoods regarding the Islamic Science myth. BBC, PBS and others propagate this mythology ad nauseum. Academia’s sense of intellectual integrity and freedom of thought have come to naught. It is the same in lower schools, as well, the propagandists are spreading the word from lower schools to the hallowed halls of academia.
There’s a ludicrous ahadith that states while muslums have a single intestine, kafir have many. It’s mentioned in the comic Muhammad’s Believe It or Else.
The Saudis are in it for the long game and they have the money behind them to pay off politicians and academics to promote their agenda, which is Sunni Islamic domination of the world.
Rocinante44
5 years ago
“islamic science” is an oxymoron. anything a muslim needs to know is in the koran, all else is blasphemy
Muslims have advanced science, maths, medicine, literature, art, astronomy, poetry, computing science…. etc, etc, when you play the guitar, play chess, drink coffee, eat croissants… is thanks to islam
Charles Murray is of course a co-author of “The Bell Curve”. He is also the author of the book, ‘Human Accomplishment’. In this we find that Muslims or persons under Islamic Rule have made some excellent contributions to science and some other branches of accomplishment, but that they have made only a tiny number of world importance.
Drawing on multiple sources, including 9 chronologies such as that by Bernard Grun, ‘The Timetables of History’, Murray lists 4002 truly significant figures in the various branches of human intellectual and artistic endeavour. Of these, just 568 or 14% are not Western and 82 or a tiny 2% are Arabic or Muslim.
He demonstrates that, of the 102 central events in mathematics, 3 are connected to Persia but are not necessarily Islamic. The Chinese are responsible for 9 of the 119 central events in technology. The rest, apart from the first known use of glass blowing in the Levant, are Western, There are 57 events in astronomy, Only one, the Chinese description of sunspots in 165 BC is not Western.
There are 2 significant events ascribed to Muslims in Chemistry among the 70 listed, Jabban Bin Hayyan’s preparation of acetic acid in AD 750 and the first distillation of concentrated alcohol from wine in AD 900. There is no Muslim or non-Western contribution to the 47 significant events in the Earth Sciences, none in the 147 of Physics, none in the 64 of Biology and none in the 68 in Medicine.
Murray points out that whether measured in terms of people or events, up to 1950, 97% of Accomplishment in the scientific inventories occurred in Europe and North America and virtually of all these were by white men.
When Muslims or others living in the Islamic Empire made their contributions this was almost invariably not because of Islam but in spite of it. What Islamic doctrine truly contributed was Jihad which brought the learning of others together through conquest.
Islam reasserted when it consolidated its Empire. Because of this, the Islamic doctrine that all knowledge worth having is to be found in the Qur’an, as that book itself states, has ensured that no advances in any branch of learning or the arts have been made by Muslims in seven centuries.
islam is the most inventive of cultures. They have invented many novel ways to rape, torture , use treachery and murder. A billion or more muslims go to a mosque multiple times a day to be harangued by the imams with such vile thoughts. Surely, this is the way to an advanced civilization.
Croissants were made by the Viennese, I think, to mock Islam. Coffee really came from Ethiopia (called Abyssinia back then).
Michelle
5 years ago
Fake science, fake religion, fake “bible” (Koran), fake god but a very totalitarian supremacist patriarchal ideology that bore two bastard children: communism and Nazism who both loved its “any means to and end” philosophy. The communist were pretty good as fake achievements also.
FYI ALL “Islamic” architecture is NOT islamic but Byzantine so the next time some idiot waxes on about the Taj Mahal ask him why the minarets of the kremlin disprove this as islam never reached Moscow but byzantine did.
bargogx1
5 years ago
Leftists are somehow involved in this deception, you can be sure of it.
R. Arandas
5 years ago
Everything the Arabs claimed as part of “Islamic civilization” was more or less stolen from the much older and respectable civilizations they consumed and subsumed, such as Egypt, Persia and India! Like the fake “Arabic” numeral system, for example.
Wouldn’t the oceans have a tendency to drain away over the edges?
Ken Lebel
5 years ago
The modern blue terrestrial globe in one of the pictures is also a clue that it is fake.
Buck
5 years ago
Islam is an evil satanic cult that try’s to destroy every thing good it come I contact with. Nothing about it is good only destruction and misery and death follow it.
Sven
5 years ago
They are lying, cruel degenerates and they cannot change it by fake ! Ins Allah “
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago
LOL! Reminds me of the Black Panther movie. My friend told me he could not stand the baloney and half way through he quit watching it.
I was a lot smarter and NEVER watched the movie. I already knew what it would be about. The PHONY Negro intellect. How Hollowood wishes the Negro would be like.
Heck, even Negroes don’t like other Negroes. How can they work together?
Be carefool when watching Hollowood movies. They portray Negroes as being the good guy and white people as BAAAD!!
They do it in subtle ways to TRICK you and beguile you that Negroes are just like US.
Oh really? Where is their civilizations and inventions? Where is the Negro car, the Negro watch, the Negro aeroplane? There is no Negro industry of anything at all. Even their music industry rely on the white man They don’t even have an army.
They would end up shooting each other.
Pantalones
5 years ago
Damn idea thieves..Everyone knows it was the blacks and early Puerto Rican’s who invented All that science stuff AND they also invented pants.????
Wasn’t it that nazi Goebbles who said if you tell a lie often enough, people think it’s the truth.?
Anna Blanco
5 years ago
As false and absurd as Black History month. The worrying thing is that formerly august, rigorous institutions such as the Bodleian are accepting transparent fakery from Istanbul tourist shops as well provenance originals. The long march of the cultual marxist liars and useful idiots into the institutions continues unabated.
February, the shortest month of the year, is Black History Month.
Coincidence? I think not.
linda goudsmit
5 years ago
This is what historical revisionism looks like. In true Orwellian fashion the facts of history are erased not only from history books, they are erased from art books, archaeology books, science books etc to provide consistency to the lies being told. It is the operating principle of the echo chamber – when the media outlets colluded to misrepresent Obama’s egregious Iran deal the unsuspecting public heard the same disinformation from multiple sources. The liars are not stupid – they understand that if you tell a lie often enough it is perceived as the truth. The problem is it is still a lie no matter who believes it!
re-read 1984…you are so correct! George Orwell (nee Eric Blair born in 1903).
linda goudsmit
5 years ago
This is what historical revisionism looks like. In true Orwellian fashion the facts of history are erased not only from history books, they are erased from art books, archaeology books, science books etc to provide consistency to the lies being told. It is the operating principle of the echo chamber – when the media outlets colluded to misrepresent Obama’s egregious Iran deal the unsuspecting public heard the same disinformation from multiple sources. The liars are not stupid – they understand that if you tell a lie often enough it is perceived as the truth. The problem is it is still a lie no matter who believes it!
leonore35
5 years ago
Then there are the ‘scientific gems’ like drinking camel urine, and pushing the fly into one’s soup as the one wing carries disease and the other the cure!
This is from page 13 of the test ” . . Wherever they went, the Moslems brought with them their love of art, beauty, and learning.
From about the eighth to the eleventh century, their culture was superior in many ways to that
of western Christendom.
Some of the finest centers of Moslem life were established in Spain. In Cordova, the streets
were solidly paved, while at the same time in Paris people waded ankle-deep in mud after a rain.
Cordovan public lamps lighted roads for as far as ten miles; yet seven hundred years later there
was still not a single public lamp in London!
Some Spanish Moslems had homes with marble balconies and courts with lovely waterfalls.
Bedrooms were vaulted with stained glass and speckled with gold. And metal pipes carried water
into marble baths.
Nearly every mosque had a public school in which the children of the poor were taught. Many
Moslem libraries were excellent; the catalogue of one caliph’s library filled forty volumes. In
addition, the followers of Mohammed achieved much in science, particularly in chemistry,
astronomy, mathematics, and medicine. . . .
Source: Daniel Roselle, A World History: A Cultural Approach, Ginn and Company (adapted)”
PedoHaterConservativeCanadian
5 years ago
BUT the Cumran said the world sits on 2 mountains and the sun sets into a mud puddle? I confused.
Is the whole Cumran book wrong or misunderstood by every slimmer cult member?
Also which dude is Dirty Mo the Pedo Profit? and who get’s their head chopped off first ??
Ludlow Porch
5 years ago
Anyone notice the similarities between the Libmocrats and Muslims. The Libs rewrite U.S. history books to reflect their self centered doctrines and change the facts in order to advance their cause. Muslims do the same exact things in order to advance the cause of Islam and enslave all infidels! Thus the open border migrations crusade and the adoption of Muslims and the invasion of our nation with these filthy disgusting murderers.
David Square
5 years ago
Contrary to popular myths about Islam and mathematics, the concept of zero was invented by the Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia 3500 years before the first Muslim Arab arrived in the area. Moreover, it was Greeks, not Arabs, who created algebra. Because algebra is an Arabic word, Islam continues to foster the lie that this branch of math originated in Arabia. Though Islam does not claim to have invented murder, rape and mayhem, the Religion of Peace honed it to a fine edge during the bloody, orgiastic reigns of its many Caliphs and their Caliphates. What a contribution to human culture and science!
Jane Dowe
5 years ago
OH, PUH-LEASE! If muzzzzies were so ‘intellectual’, then why are so many lacking in education today??
It was Khameini who said that earthquakes are the direct result of immoral women who don’t cover their hair!
intelligence and muslim don’t belong in the same sentence.
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