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"Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves." ~Al-Ghazali

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The Sword of Sultan Fatih Mehmetؒ, who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21. It heighs 1.25m and weighs 7kg.

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Fuck Turkey. Reclaim Constantinople.

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This is the statue of Sütçü İmam in Turkey, the man who shot dead the first French soldier who tried to remove the veil of a Muslim woman. Many historians state that this event led to the Battle of Marash between the Ottoman Army and French occupying forces.

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A graduate of the Islamic University of Madinah, Dr. Hamid Choi dedicated seven years of his life translating the Holy Quran and Sahih Bukhari into the Korean language, thus becoming the first Korean Muslim to do so. He has also written over ninety Islamic books.

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Russian priest, Vladimir Ugryumov embraces Islam ☪️ After spending 15 years as a priest in the Orthodox Church.

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Vaccination certificate against pandemic in Ottoman Empire during the period of Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1908/1326 AH.

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A man who is not told about his fault thinks his fault is a skill. ~Saa'di Shirazi

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October 3, 2006, Iraq, Baghdad. A US soldier looking for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in a kitchen.

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This is the original of the dynastical minarets going around on Twitter right now.

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On this day (20 September) 1187: Sultan Salahuddin al-Ayyubi begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

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The Sword of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror, who killed and decapitated Vlad, and sent his head to Constantinople as a trophy to be displayed above the city's gates.

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A Viking-era ring inscribed with the words 'for Allah', found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka, 25 km west of modern-day Stockholm. The ring constitutes unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate.

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1) Abū Kāmil (Auoquamel) (d. 930), was a Muslim mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age. He was the first mathematician to systematically use and accept irrational numbers as solutions and coefficients to equations. His mathematical techniques were later adopted by Fibonacci..1/4

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Palestinian coin from 1927, long before "Israel". #Palestine #PalestineBleeding #AqsaUnderAttack #Gaza

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On this day, (02 October 1187), Sultan Salahudin Ayubbi captured the city of Jerusalem. Christian crusaders surrendered the city to the Sultan after 12 days of siege. Once the city was captured, Sultan allowed the Freedom of worship to all religions in the city.

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1) Ibn Yunus (1009 CE) was an Egyptian Muslim mathematician. His great grand-father was a hadith scholar and an associate of Imam Shafi'i. Ibn Yunus' methods for determining the time from stellar altitude were equivalent to {𝟮𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮)𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗯)=𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮+𝗯)+𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮-𝗯)}.+++

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A man who is not told about his fault thinks his fault is a skill. ~Saa'di Shirazi

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This is the statue of Sütçü İmam in Turkey, the man who shot dead the first French soldier who tried to remove the veil of a Muslim woman. Many historians state that this event led to the Battle of Marash between the Ottoman Army and French occupying forces.

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The helmet of Sultan Mehmet Fatih, who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21, ending the Byzantine Empire. Topkapi Museum

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🌾Prostration of gratitude after harvest in Anatolia (Türkiye), 1952

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"Human beings have become so worldly that even those who dig graves do not believe that they will die." — Imam al-Ghazali

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Turkish coffee on hot sand☕️

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Jumma Salah in Moscow's snowy weather.

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1) Abu Zayd Balkhi (d. 850), was a Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, and psychologist from Balkh, Khorasan (in modern-day #Afghanistan ). He was the first to differentiate between neurosis and psychosis, and the first to classify neurotic disorders...1/3

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1) Ibn Battuta (c.1304 – 1368) was a Berber Muslim Moroccan Maliki judge and explorer who widely traveled the Old World, traveling more than any other explorer in history, totaling around 117,000 km, surpassing Zheng He with about 50,000 km and Marco Polo with 24,000 km...1/3 🧵

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The Persian wind tower (بادگیر) or how a 700-year-old air conditioner could cool an environment up to 12°C with no electricity [📹 Never Enough Architecture]

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This is the statue of Sütçü İmam in Turkey, the man who shot dead the first French soldier who tried to remove the veil of a Muslim woman. Many historians state that this event led to the Battle of Marash between the Ottoman Army and French occupying forces.

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"Human beings have become so worldly that even those who dig graves do not believe that they will die." ~Imam al-Ghazali

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Golden calligraphy on a tree leaf from the Ottoman Era.

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On this Day (31 July) 1658: Muhi al-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir is proclaimed the Mughal emperor of India.

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Ibn Battuta’s Travels, 1325-1354 AD

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US soldier confiscating WMDs in Iraq🇮🇶!

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Shaykha Nakata Kaori. She is the first female Muslim scholar in Japan. She has translated Tafsir al-Jalalayn and many other classics into Japanese. May Allah rest her soul in peace.

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1) Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (d. 998) was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer from Khorasan. He established several Trig. identities such as [𝒔𝒊𝒏(𝒂±𝒃)] in their modern form. He also discovered the law of sines: {𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗔/𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗮=𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗕/𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗯=𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗖/𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰} 🧵

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1) Habash al-Marwazi (d. 869) was a Persian Muslim astronomer, geographer, and mathematician from Khorasan, who for the first time described the trigonometric ratios: sine, cosine, tangent, and cotangent. He flourished under the Abbasid caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim... 1/3

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The Ottoman Sultans used to wear a headdress that was an actual burial shroud (kafan) styled like a turban. When they died, the turban was unwrapped, and their body was placed within it and buried.

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1) 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) (d.986) was a Persian Muslim astronomer. He was the first to describe the Andromeda Galaxy in 964 AD. Al-Sufi made his astronomical observations at a latitude of 32.7° in Isfahan. He also identified the Large Magellanic Cloud from Yemen. 1/5 🧵

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On this day (4 March) 1193 : Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, sultan of Egypt and Syria, heroic conquerer and liberator of Al-Quds, passed away due to fever. He had given away his great wealth to his poor subjects, leaving nothing to pay for his funeral.

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Four things discipline the soul best: •Silence •hunger •loneliness •sleeplessness ~Feriduddin Attarؒ

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1) Ibn Sahl (d. 1000), was a Muslim mathematician and physicist, who flourished in Baghdad. He was the first to discover the law of refraction (Snell's law). Ibn Sahl uses this law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations, known as anaclastic lenses.++

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A pencil shop in Iran.

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Olive oil and laurel soap products of the Ottoman Era.

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A man who is not told about his fault thinks his fault is a skill. — Saa'di Shirazi

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"Loneliness does not bore the one who is alone with knowledge. Anyone who uses books as a means of consolation will never feel sad. " ~ al-Mawardi

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The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: “Verily, there is heavenly reward for every act of kindness done to a living animal". 💙

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On February 3rd, Mehmed II ascended to the Ottoman throne. Considered one of the greatest Ottoman Sultan, he expanded the realm and captured Constantinople, earning the title of Fatih, “the conquerer”.

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A Turkish Imam opens the Mosque for cats to keep warm in the winter months ❤️

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Al-Zahrāwī (Abulcasis) (d. 1013), was an Andalusian physician, surgeon, and chemist. He has been described as the father of surgery. His principal work is the Kitab al-Tasrif, an encyclopedia of medical practices. This became the standard textbook in Europe for the next 500 yrs.

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An Afghan man walks for his wife and child to ride in the bitter cold of the Hindukush mountains. Imagine that the West wants to teach this man the rights of women !!!

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1) Al-Mu'taman Billah (c. 1085), was a mathematician, geometer, and the king of the Taifa of Zaragoza in Andalus (Spain). Al-Mu'taman is the author of the first known formulation of "Ceva's theorem", which was only known in Europe in 1678...++ 🧵THREAD:

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1) Al-Marwazi (c. 766-869) was a Muslim astronomer, geographer, and mathematician from Merv, Khorasan who for the first time described the trigonometric ratios: sine, cosine, tangent, and cotangent. He flourished in Baghdad and worked under the caliphs Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim. 1/2

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1) Ibn Yunus (1009 CE) was a Muslim mathematician. His great grand-father was a hadith scholar and an associate of Imam Shafi'i. His methods for determining the time from stellar altitude were equivalent to {𝟮𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮)𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗯)=𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮+𝗯)+𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮-𝗯) [ Werner's formula]++

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"Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves." ~Al-Ghazali

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1) Ibn Yunus (1009 CE) was a Muslim Arab mathematician and Astronomer. His great-grandfather was an associate of Imam Shafi'i. Ibn Yunus' methods for determining the time from stellar altitude were equivalent to {𝟮𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮)𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗯)=𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮+𝗯)+𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮-𝗯)} ...1/4

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A poor fruit seller is seen reading Mukhtasar Al-Quduri, a classical Hanafi Fiqh Text, India. What’s our excuse with knowledge?

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A 500 years old sufi (zawiya/Khanqah) teaching center in Bosnia

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1) Al-Urdi (d. 1266) was an Arab Muslim astronomer and geometer from Syria. He came to Damascus at some point before 1239, where he worked as an engineer and teacher of geometry, and built instruments. He also criticized the astronomical model presented in Ptolemy's Almagest..1/3

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100 years ago, today. March 3, 1924. The legacy that started from the Caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (R.A) 1400 years ago, and continued with a continuous chain of Caliphs, was broken. The shield of the Ummah was broken, and dark days were ahead.

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The beautiful city of Bukhara!

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Daughter plays with her father while he prays.

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This Palestinian coin is older than Israel. #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree #PalestiniansLivesMatter #PalestineUnderAttack #AlQuds #MasjidAlAqsa #AlAqsa #Gaza

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Muhammad Ma Jian (马坚) (1906–1978) was a Hui-Chinese Islamic scholar and translator, known for translating the Qur'an into Chinese. Ma studied at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. His translation of the Qur'an remains the most popular in China today.

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Eid Mubarak Everyone ❤️

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Prayer compartment in Indonesia train.

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On this day (September 19) 634 CE, The Rashidun Army under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.

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1) Sayyid Ali Hamadani (d. 1384 CE) was a Persian Sufi Muslim saint, scholar and poet. He preached Islam in Central Asia and Kashmir. Hamadani is credited with introducing the teachings of Ibn Arabi to South Asia. He wrote two commentaries on Ibn Arabi's "Fusus al-Hikam". 🧵

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1) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (d. 1429) was a Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, who provided an explicit statement of the law of cosines suitable for triangulation. He discovered [(sin 3Φ=3sinΦ - 4sin^3Φ)] to determine Sin 1°. He also computed 2π to 9 sexagesimal digits. +1/4

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Muslim soldiers of the Russian Imperial Army at daily prayers. Austrian front, September 1914.

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Adhan Time in Istanbul by Halid Naci

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1) Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (d. 998) was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer from Khorasan. He established several Trig. identities such as [𝒔𝒊𝒏(𝒂±𝒃)] in their modern form. He also discovered the law of sines: {𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗔/𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗮=𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗕/𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗯=𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗖/𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰} 🧵

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1) Zheng He (郑和) (d.1435), was a Chinese Muslim explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming dynasty. Zheng was a 30th generation descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). Zheng led China to become the superpower of the Indian Ocean, in the 15th CE...1/7

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Today (4th July) is the anniversary of the Battle of Hattin. This took place between the Muslims under Salahuddin Ayyubi and the Christian Crusaders in 1187CE near Tiberias. The Muslims won a decisive victory and 3 months later reconquered Jerusalem and liberated Masjid al-Aqsa.

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Ibn Arabi’s diagram of Spiritual Realm and metaphysical self.

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1) Ibn Sahl (d. 1000), was a Muslim mathematician and physicist, who flourished in Baghdad. He was the first to discover the law of refraction (Snell's law). Ibn Sahl uses this law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations, known as anaclastic lenses.++

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1) Qutb al-Din Shirazi (d.1311), was a persian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, Chemist and Sufi poet. He received his Kherqa (Sufi robe) from his father at age of 10. In 1284, he presented his models of planetary motion and also discussed the possibility of heliocentrism.++ 🧵

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1) Ibn al-Nafis al-Shafi'i al-Ash'ari (d. 1288), was an Arab Muslim polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood....1/5

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1) Al-Jazarī (d.1206), was an Arab Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, and mathematician. He has been described as the "father of robotics" and modern-day engineering. In 1206, he described 50 mechanical devices, and how to construct them...++ (🧵THREAD)

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Ibn Battuta’s Travels, 1325-1354 AD

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Ibn Battuta’s Travels, 1325-1354 AD

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1) Ibn Yunus (1009 CE) was a Muslim mathematician. His father was a hadith scholar and an associate of Imam Shafi'i. Ibn Yunus' methods for determining the time from stellar altitude were equivalent to {𝟮𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮)𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗯)=𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮+𝗯)+𝗰𝗼𝘀(𝗮-𝗯) [ Werner's formula]. ..1/3

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1) Ibn Sahl (d. 1000), was a Muslim mathematician and physicist, who flourished in Baghdad. He was the first to discover the law of refraction (Snell's law). He used this law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations, known as anaclastic lenses.++

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1) Ibn Zuhr (d. 1162) (Avenzoar), was a Muslim Arab physician, surgeon, and poet from Andalusia. His greatest contribution to medicine was his application of experimental method by introducing animal testing. Ibn Zuhr performed the first experimental tracheotomy on a goat.++ 🧵

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1) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (d. 1429) was a Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, who provided an explicit statement of the law of cosines suitable for triangulation. He discovered [(sin 3Φ=3sinΦ - 4sin^3Φ)] to determine Sin 1°. He also computed 2π to 9 sexagesimal digits. +1/4

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In 1500, Muslim scholar Mohammad al-Yayyar was given a choice: convert to Christianity or flee his homeland He fled. But before he left, he hid his books in his home's walls. 503 years later, Magdalena found them. An extraordinary story from Spain:

The books that lay hidden behind a wall for five centuries in Spain

Two decades have passed since the discovery of the manuscripts that the imam of Cútar hid in a wall in his home around the year 1500, one of them an Almohad-period Koran

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One person, Ten languages, millions of stories. 🕌🕌🕌 Credit: @omr94_

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1) Abu Zayd Balkhi (d. 850), was a Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, and psychologist from Balkh, Khorasan (in modern-day #Afghanistan ). He was the first to differentiate between neurosis and psychosis, and the first to classify neurotic disorders...1/3

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1) Ibn al-Nafis al-Shafi'i al-Ash'ari (d. 1288), was an Arab Muslim polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He was the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood....1/5

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Ottoman birth certificate (1909 CE) during the reign of Caliph Abdul Hamid II

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1) Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (CE. 1137 – 1193), better known as Saladin, was a Sunni Muslim and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Saladin led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant...1/5 #Palestine #PalestineWillBeFree #PalestiniansLivesMatter

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1) Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) was a Persian Muslim polymath, Islamic scholar, and a pioneer of inductive logic. He wrote various works in the fields of medicine, chemistry, physics, astronomy, cosmology, literature, theology, philosophy, history, and jurisprudence...1/3

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1) Al-Isfazārī (12th CE) was a Persian Muslim mathematician and astronomer from Balkh, Khurasan (modern-day #Afghanistan ). His main works include: the theory of the steelyard balance with unequal arms, and a summary of Euclid's Elements,a text on geometrical measurements ++

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1) Al-Jazarī (d.1206), was an Kurdish Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, and mathematician. He has been described as the "father of robotics" and modern-day engineering. In 1206, he described 50 mechanical devices, and how to construct them...++

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1) Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (1137 – 4 March 1193), better known simply as Salah ad-Din or Saladin, was a Sunni Kurd and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Saladin led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant...1/5 #science #history #Islam

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Fajr Prayer #Bosnia & Herzegovina

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1) Muhammad Tahir Gani Kashmiri (d. 1669) was a Persian-language poet from Srinagar, Kashmir. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer of Persian in Mughal era. He wrote over 100,000 verses and produced most of his work during the reign of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb...1/3

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In a letter from Sultan Abdülhamid II to Sheikh Mahmud Shadhili : "They offered 150 million British gold pieces for the establishment of a Jewish state in #Palestine . I told them: 'I would never agree with you even if you offer me the gold of the entire world." #GenocideinGaza

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1) Abu Mahmud Khojandi (d. 1000) was a Central Asian Muslim astronomer and mathematician who helped build an observatory, near the city of Ray (Tehran), in Iran. He constructed the first huge mural sextant, and determined the Earth's axial tilt to be [23°32'19"] for 994AD. 1/3

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