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Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by MarieSucre(f): 8:12pm On Jul 06, 2015 |
xage:Go back to the origin of this question line. I commented on the moors and also how the Europeans have also being ahead of us in so many aspects. And YOU quoted me. YOUR quote did not provide any counter point but resorted to ad hominems. That is when I asked YOU to provide evidence for YOUR claims. Now pks do the needful and provide the evidence. Otan! |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by xage(m): 9:35pm On Jul 06, 2015 |
MarieSucre: Your plea of ignorance has found a cure, i have finally considered you frank and will do justice to your request so that you may heal many others out there who might be equally uninformed, which i consider unfair in this generation of free access to internet. Now, i repeat again, Islam is the beginning of civilization, below are some documented evidences as confirmed even by an Islam hating channel CNN. I indulge you to seat back as take you on this convincing journey, that Islam is indeed the beginning of civilization. If you had waited for me this long to do this research for you, then, how am i damn sure you know what civilization is? this is why i will steal a moment to define what civilization means in a generous context. Civilization is a height of human social,economics, cultural and organizational development of a particular age or time. MarieSucre, could you think of top factors to consider while scrutinizing human development? i'm pretty sure education,science,mathematics, food,music and health would be inclusive on your dear list. You might as well find my text as lengthy and burdensome, this is why i will provide you with a visual youtube link as substitute to my theoritical write-up dug from verified sources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXuSNdlJOCw please thank me later, or better still accord me a little respect for once BI-ISIMILAH, Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind.But in fact, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins. Along with the first university, and even the toothbrush, it is among surprising Muslim inventions that have shaped the world we live in today. The origins of these fundamental ideas and objects -- the basis of everything from the bicycle to musical scales -- are the focus of "1001 Inventions," a book celebrating "the forgotten" history of 1,000 years of Muslim heritage. "There's a hole in our knowledge, we leap frog from the Renaissance to the Greeks," professor Salim al-Hassani, Chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, and editor of the book told CNN. "1001 Inventions" is now an exhibition at London's Science Museum. Hassani hopes the exhibition will highlight the contributions of non-Western cultures -- like the Muslim empire that once covered Spain and Portugal, Southern Italy and stretched as far as parts of China -- to present day civilization. Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt --professor Salim al-Hassani RELATED TOPICS Middle East World History Science and Technology Here Hassani shares his top 10 outstanding Muslim inventions: 1. Surgery Around the year 1,000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Among his many inventions, Zahrawi discovered the use of dissolving cat gut to stitch wounds -- beforehand a second surgery had to be performed to remove sutures. He also reportedly performed the first caesarean operation and created the first pair of forceps. 2. Coffee Now the Western world's drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the empire. By the 13th century it reached Turkey, but not until the 16th century did the beans start boiling in Europe, brought to Italy by a Venetian trader. 3. Flying machine "Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to construct a flying machine and fly," said Hassani. In the 9th century he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird costume. In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and partially breaking his back. His designs would undoubtedly have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's hundreds of years later, said Hassani. 4. University In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco. Her sister Miriam founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University. Still operating almost 1,200 years later, Hassani says he hopes the center will remind people that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition and that the story of the al-Firhi sisters will inspire young Muslim women around the world today. 5. Algebra The word algebra comes from the title of a Persian mathematician's famous 9th century treatise "Kitab al-Jabr Wa l-Mugabala" which translates roughly as "The Book of Reasoning and Balancing." Built on the roots of Greek and Hindu systems, the new algebraic order was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational numbers and geometrical magnitudes. The same mathematician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the concept of raising a number to a power. 6. Optics "Many of the most important advances in the study of optics come from the Muslim world," says Hassani. Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemy's theories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye sees images upright due to the connection between the optic nerve and the brain. 7. Music Muslim musicians have had a profound impact on Europe, dating back to Charlemagne tried to compete with the music of Baghdad and Cordoba, according to Hassani. Among many instruments that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the rahab, an ancestor of the violin. Modern musical scales are also said to derive from the Arabic alphabet. 8. Toothbrush According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath. Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste. 9. The crank Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting rod system. By converting rotary motion to linear motion, the crank enables the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease. This technology, discovered by Al-Jazari in the 12th century, exploded across the globe, leading to everything from the bicycle to the internal combustion engine. 10. Hospitals "Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching centers, come from 9th century Egypt," explained Hassani. The first such medical center was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, founded in 872 in Cairo. Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who needed it -- a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the Muslim world. |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by MarieSucre(f): 7:26am On Jul 09, 2015 |
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Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by MarieSucre(f): 7:29am On Jul 09, 2015 |
xage:Thanks. Finally a response!! The Inventions Coffee 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 City of London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee. [2] The legend being referred to by Paul Vallely is expounded upon in the Coffee History, found on decentcoffee.com : " Arabian coffee-drinking began almost 12 centuries ago (850 A.D.) when an Abyssinian goat herder named Khalid noticed that while the afternoon sun made him drowsy, his flock frolicked and skipped about after nibbling at some berries. Khalid either ate the berries whole, or ground and boiled them. When his wife saw how energetic the normally exhausted Khalid was, she urged him to share this miraculous discovery with the local holy man at the monastery. The chief monk did not share Khalid's enthusiasm. Declaring the berries "the work of the Devil," he flung them into a fire to banish their offending presence. Soon the room filled with the delicious aroma of roasting berries, and other monks hurried in to discover the source of this new delight. " Notice above, that the passage says the goat herder named Khalid (or Kaldi as he is named in another version of the story) was an Abyssinian. Abyssinians were predominantly Orthodox Christians. In addition, there is no such thing as monasteries or monks in Islam. In fact, it is forbidden ( Qur'an 57:027 ). Therefore, if this legend were to be true, Khalid (or Kaldi) would not have been a Muslim, but a Christian. Also, the discovery of coffee, according to the maronite monk Antonius Faustus Naironus (1635–1707 AD), differs somewhat from the above tale. In "De saluberrima potione Cahue, seu Cafe nuncupata discursus" (1671) he writes, that a herdsman complained to the Prior of a nearby monastery in Abyssinia, that his animals could not sleep. Two monks, together with the herdsman, were sent by their superior to investigate what it was the animals were eating. They discovered coffee plants which they took back to the monastery, where they brewed a beverage from its fruits. They passed the whole night in pleasant conversation, without any fatigue. [3] Vision The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one. [2] The basic optical principles of the pinhole are commented on in Chinese texts from the 5th century BC. Both the claims, that he created intromission theory, and that he invented the pin-hole camera, are false. Intromission theory (opposing emission theory) originated in Greek philosophy, and its proponents included Aristotle , Galen , and Empedocles . Giovanni Battista della Porta (1538–1615), a scientist from Naples, was long thought to have been the inventor, due to his description found inside Magia naturalis (1558). However, the first published picture of a pin-hole camera is a drawing in Gemma Frisius' De Radio Astronomica et Geometrica (1545). [4] While both the Latin and Arabic languages have borrowed from each other, the Latin language actually pre-dates classic Arabic (the precursor to modern Arabic) by at least 1,600 years. The term “camera” was not derived from the Arabic word “qamara”. “Camera” is a Latin word meaning a vaulted or arched space, derived from the Greek καμαρα, which refers to anything with an arched cover. The Italian word "camera", the French word "chambre", and the English word "chamber" all share the same Latin root. "Camera obscura" literally meaning a “dark room”. [5][6] The term “camera”, as applied today, was first coined by Johannes Kepler (1571–1630). The Arabic word “qamara” has almost certainly been borrowed from the Latin word "camera", and at best the similarity between the two words is a coincidence. [4] Chess A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot. [2] British archaeologists in July 2002 unearthed an ivory chess piece, at a Byzantine palace in southern Albania proving that Europeans were playing chess a lot earlier than what was previously thought. The recent discoveries, dating back to the 6 th Century (500 years older than any other), seem to have been largely ignored to allow Muslims to claim that they were the real brains that introduced chess to the idiotic West 400 years later, through Spain in the 10 th Century. [7] And while the form of chess we know today was largely (though not completely) developed in Persia, it was by Zoroastrian (rather than Islamic) Persians prior to the Muslim Arab invasions. Also ironic is the fact that chess is forbidden in Islam, as it was condemned by Muhammad who compared playing chess with dying ones hand with the flesh and blood of swine. [8][9] So in reality, Paul Vallely and Muslims themselves claiming Islam was the cause of the spread of chess to Europe is an offence to the pious, and would no doubt have Muhammad rolling in his grave. Flying A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. [2] To get to the root of the facts concerning who was the first to fly, one must go to the very basics first. As far as flying is concerned, at the beginning were the kites, and these were a Chinese invention. They date back as far as 3,000 years, where they were made from bamboo and silk in China. The earliest written account of kite flying was about 200 BC. In 478 BC a Chinese Philosopher, Mo Zi, spent three years making a hawk from light wood or bamboo which sailed with the wind. It could fly, but after one day’s trial it was wrecked. Kites were also used in Chinese warfare for years. They carried hideously painted faces, pipes and strings that gave noises to frighten the enemy. Many attempts to use kites to fly men were also made, the earliest recorded success was very brutal. In AD 550 Emperor Kao Yang overcome his powerful enemies the Thopa and Yuan families. He ordered that the surviving Thopas and Yuan to be fitted out with bamboo-mat wings and cast from the top of the Tower of the Golden phoenix. All died. Other captives were attached to kites cut out in the form of owls and launched from the tower. Only one of the captives survived after flying 2.5 Km. Later that survivor, named Yuan Huang-Thou was starved to death. The Chinese also tried to produce flying machines. In the book Pao Phu Tzu , dated AD 320, Ko Hung states: “Some have made flying cars with wood, using ox-leather straps fastened to returning blades to set the machines in motion”. He is clearly describing rotating blades attached to a spinning axle and driven by a (leather) belt that is a rotor top the principal of which underlie the modern-day helicopter. It seems that the system worked because flying cars had been used. The machine, known as “bamboo dragonfly”, is still used today as a child’s toy. [10][11][12] In the West, the ancient Greek engineer, Hero of Alexandria, worked with air pressure and steam to create sources of power. One experiment that he developed was the aeolipile, which used jets of steam to create rotary motion. The importance of the aeolipile is that it marks the start of engine invention—engine created movement will later prove essential in the history of flight. [13] Given all of the above information, how can anyone possibly accredit the invention of flight to a 9 th century Muslim jumping off a mosque in Spain? 1 Like |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by MarieSucre(f): 10:30am On Jul 09, 2015 |
xage:Coffee 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 City of London. The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee. [2] The legend being referred to by Paul Vallely is expounded upon in the Coffee History, found on decentcoffee.com : " Arabian coffee-drinking began almost 12 centuries ago (850 A.D.) when an Abyssinian goat herder named Khalid noticed that while the afternoon sun made him drowsy, his flock frolicked and skipped about after nibbling at some berries. Khalid either ate the berries whole, or ground and boiled them. When his wife saw how energetic the normally exhausted Khalid was, she urged him to share this miraculous discovery with the local holy man at the monastery. The chief monk did not share Khalid's enthusiasm. Declaring the berries "the work of the Devil," he flung them into a fire to banish their offending presence. Soon the room filled with the delicious aroma of roasting berries, and other monks hurried in to discover the source of this new delight. " Notice above, that the passage says the goat herder named Khalid (or Kaldi as he is named in another version of the story) was an Abyssinian. Abyssinians were predominantly Orthodox Christians. In addition, there is no such thing as monasteries or monks in Islam. In fact, it is forbidden ( Qur'an 57:027 ). Therefore, if this legend were to be true, Khalid (or Kaldi) would not have been a Muslim, but a Christian. Also, the discovery of coffee, according to the maronite monk Antonius Faustus Naironus (1635–1707 AD), differs somewhat from the above tale. In "De saluberrima potione Cahue, seu Cafe nuncupata discursus" (1671) he writes, that a herdsman complained to the Prior of a nearby monastery in Abyssinia, that his animals could not sleep. Two monks, together with the herdsman, were sent by their superior to investigate what it was the animals were eating. They discovered coffee plants which they took back to the monastery, where they brewed a beverage from its fruits. They passed the whole night in pleasant conversation, without any fatigue. [3] Vision The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th-century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn al-Haitham. He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word qamara for a dark or private room). He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics from a philosophical activity to an experimental one. [2] The basic optical principles of the pinhole are commented on in Chinese texts from the 5th century BC. Both the claims, that he created intromission theory, and that he invented the pin-hole camera, are false. Intromission theory (opposing emission theory) originated in Greek philosophy, and its proponents included Aristotle , Galen , and Empedocles . Giovanni Battista della Porta (1538–1615), a scientist from Naples, was long thought to have been the inventor, due to his description found inside Magia naturalis (1558). However, the first published picture of a pin-hole camera is a drawing in Gemma Frisius' De Radio Astronomica et Geometrica (1545). [4] While both the Latin and Arabic languages have borrowed from each other, the Latin language actually pre-dates classic Arabic (the precursor to modern Arabic) by at least 1,600 years. The term “camera” was not derived from the Arabic word “qamara”. “Camera” is a Latin word meaning a vaulted or arched space, derived from the Greek καμαρα, which refers to anything with an arched cover. The Italian word "camera", the French word "chambre", and the English word "chamber" all share the same Latin root. "Camera obscura" literally meaning a “dark room”. [5][6] The term “camera”, as applied today, was first coined by Johannes Kepler (1571–1630). The Arabic word “qamara” has almost certainly been borrowed from the Latin word "camera", and at best the similarity between the two words is a coincidence. [4] Chess A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From there it spread westward to Europe - where it was introduced by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century - and eastward as far as Japan. The word rook comes from the Persian rukh, which means chariot. [2] British archaeologists in July 2002 unearthed an ivory chess piece, at a Byzantine palace in southern Albania proving that Europeans were playing chess a lot earlier than what was previously thought. The recent discoveries, dating back to the 6 th Century (500 years older than any other), seem to have been largely ignored to allow Muslims to claim that they were the real brains that introduced chess to the idiotic West 400 years later, through Spain in the 10 th Century. [7] And while the form of chess we know today was largely (though not completely) developed in Persia, it was by Zoroastrian (rather than Islamic) Persians prior to the Muslim Arab invasions. Also ironic is the fact that chess is forbidden in Islam, as it was condemned by Muhammad who compared playing chess with dying ones hand with the flesh and blood of swine. [8][9] So in reality, Paul Vallely and Muslims themselves claiming Islam was the cause of the spread of chess to Europe is an offence to the pious, and would no doubt have Muhammad rolling in his grave. Flying A thousand years before the Wright brothers a Muslim poet, astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn't. But the cloak slowed his fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles' feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on landing - concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after him. [2] To get to the root of the facts concerning who was the first to fly, one must go to the very basics first. As far as flying is concerned, at the beginning were the kites, and these were a Chinese invention. They date back as far as 3,000 years, where they were made from bamboo and silk in China. The earliest written account of kite flying was about 200 BC. In 478 BC a Chinese Philosopher, Mo Zi, spent three years making a hawk from light wood or bamboo which sailed with the wind. It could fly, but after one day’s trial it was wrecked. Kites were also used in Chinese warfare for years. They carried hideously painted faces, pipes and strings that gave noises to frighten the enemy. Many attempts to use kites to fly men were also made, the earliest recorded success was very brutal. In AD 550 Emperor Kao Yang overcome his powerful enemies the Thopa and Yuan families. He ordered that the surviving Thopas and Yuan to be fitted out with bamboo-mat wings and cast from the top of the Tower of the Golden phoenix. All died. Other captives were attached to kites cut out in the form of owls and launched from the tower. Only one of the captives survived after flying 2.5 Km. Later that survivor, named Yuan Huang-Thou was starved to death. The Chinese also tried to produce flying machines. In the book Pao Phu Tzu , dated AD 320, Ko Hung states: “Some have made flying cars with wood, using ox-leather straps fastened to returning blades to set the machines in motion”. He is clearly describing rotating blades attached to a spinning axle and driven by a (leather) belt that is a rotor top the principal of which underlie the modern-day helicopter. It seems that the system worked because flying cars had been used. The machine, known as “bamboo dragonfly”, is still used today as a child’s toy. [10][11][12] In the West, the ancient Greek engineer, Hero of Alexandria, worked with air pressure and steam to create sources of power. One experiment that he developed was the aeolipile, which used jets of steam to create rotary motion. The importance of the aeolipile is that it marks the start of engine invention—engine created movement will later prove essential in the history of flight. [13] Given all of the above information, how can anyone possibly accredit the invention of flight to a 9 th century Muslim jumping off a mosque in Spain? |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by MarieSucre(f): 1:58pm On Jul 10, 2015 |
xage:Bathing Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders' most striking characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. [2] The first issue we need to address here, is the "Muslim" that Paul Vallely is referring to. His name was Sake Dean Mahomed and he was not a Muslim, but a convert to Christianity. [14] Born to Muslim parents in 1759, He converted to Christianity and married the Anglo-Irish gentlewoman, Jane Daly, in an Anglican ceremony in 1786 [15] (long before opening "Mahomed's Indian Vapour Baths" in 1821). [16] Two of his children (Amelia and Henry) were also baptised into the Anglican faith, and one of his grandsons, Rev. James Kerriman Mahomed, was appointed as the vicar of Hove, Sussex. [17] Also worthy of mention is the fact that Islam is not the only religion which dictates rules on personal cleanliness. The Jews too have rules governing hygiene . A soap-like material found in clay cylinders during the excavation of ancient Babylon is evidence that soapmaking was known as early as 2800 BC. Inscriptions on the cylinders say that fats were boiled with ashes, which is a method of making soap, but do not refer to the purpose of the "soap." Such materials were later used as hair styling aids. Like the ancient Egyptians before them, daily bathing was an important event in the ancient Roman world [18] and a common custom in Japan during the Middle Ages. And in Iceland, pools warmed with water from hot springs were popular gathering places on Saturday evenings. Soapmaking was an established craft in Europe by the 7th century. Soapmaker guilds guarded their trade secrets closely. Vegetable and animal oils were used with ashes of plants, along with fragrance. Gradually more varieties of soap became available for shaving and shampooing, as well as bathing and laundering. The English began making soap during the 12 th century. The soap business was so good that in 1622, King James I granted a monopoly to a soapmaker for $100,000 a year. Well into the 19 th century, soap was heavily taxed as a luxury item in several countries. When the high tax was removed, soap became available to ordinary people, and cleanliness standards improved. Commercial soapmaking in the American colonies began in 1608 with the arrival of several soapmakers on the second ship from England to reach Jamestown, VA. The science of modern soapmaking was bom in the 1820's with the discovery by French chemist Michel Eugene Chevreul, of the chemical nature and relationship of fats, glycerine and fatty acids. His studies established the basis for both fat and soap chemistry. [19] Distillation The means of separating liquids through differences in their boiling points, was invented around the year 800 by Islam's foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today - liquefaction, crystallisation, distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and filtration. As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them is haram, or forbidden, in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation and was the founder of modern chemistry. [2] Speculation has linked some Egyptian illustrations with distillation, but the earliest evidence for its invention so far is a distillation apparatus and terra-cotta perfume containers recently identified in the Indus Valley (pre- Islamic Pakistan) dating from around 3,000 BC, and Miriam the Prophetess (also known as “Maria the Jewess”) invented the kerotakis, an early still dated around the 1 st century AD. [21] The first firm documentary evidence for distillation in the West comes from Greek historian Herodotus' record of the method of distilling turpentine dated 425 BC. [22] Also, the origins of whisky is dated to the 5 th century AD, introduced to Ireland by Saint Patrick (390– 461 AD), the patron of the Irish. [23] So the Arabs may have improved upon the process of distillation some 3500 years later, but they most definitely did not invent it. It is also of great interest to note that the authorship of many books previously attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan (including "his" most famous work, Summa Perfectionis ) have now been attributed to an unknown European alchemist, sometimes to the little-known Paul of Taranto, writing shortly after 1300 AD. [24] According to the Encyclopædia Britannica: " [Geber was an] unknown author of several books that were among the most influential works on alchemy and metallurgy during the 14th and 15th centuries. The name Geber, a Latinized form of Jābir, was adopted because of the great reputation of the 8th-century Arab alchemist Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. A number of Arabic scientific works credited to Jābir were translated into Latin during the 11th to 13th centuries. Thus, when an author who was probably a practicing Spanish alchemist began to write in about 1310, he adopted the westernized form of the name, Geber, to give added authority to his work, which nevertheless reflected 14th-century European alchemical practices rather than earlier Arab ones. Four works by Geber are known: Summa perfectionis magisterii (The Sum of Perfection or the Perfect Magistery, 1678), Liber fornacum (Book of Furnaces, 1678), De investigatione perfectionis (The Investigation of Perfection, 1678), and De inventione veritatis (The Invention of Verity, 1678). They are the clearest expression of alchemical theory and the most important set of laboratory directions to appear before the 16th century. Accordingly, they were widely read and extremely influential in a field where mysticism, secrecy, and obscurity were the usual rule. "[25] 1 Like |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by xage(m): 7:02am On Jul 12, 2015 |
MarieSucre: I thought you were going to nullify my facts with worthy counter facts,happily, your arguments has only a buttress of the established facts, you were mentioning who and who converted and what and what what used by other people, common! this is not a tom and jerry play write-up... I would appreciate you take this piece of golden knowledge and halt decorating biased impressions any further, you may argue another day, on another topic, but this one was an obvious gift of knowledge from me to you,OR Would you have appreciated a gift of cabbage more because it is edible? common! knowledge is golden...pocket this |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by tpiah2: 4:26pm On Aug 14, 2015 |
ROSSIKE: @ bolded, not really. Inserting a consonant between vowels in more of a modern thing, not that its unusual. |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by djotoli: 7:49pm On Sep 09, 2015 |
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Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by djotoli: 8:21pm On Sep 09, 2015 |
english is not my language but i'm will try to explain my view i think that what they call proto bantu language are old lithurgique african language in bantu language maybe it is just a coincidence by exemple the verb to be in lingala contain many name of god in different african language those who use the word baro are related with water with baro and moro it's logic because bantu language are sub group from sub group they are different african old tribe unified around the proto bantu and the proto bantu was in contact with the proto semitic language to understand one must also look at the old illustration and the clans mythology the scarification and tatoo |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by tpiander: 4:31pm On Sep 10, 2015 |
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Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by makahlj2: 7:10pm On Sep 11, 2015 |
xage:Please excuse my ignorance, but which exactly of these people have been black? I saw mostly Arabs in that list. |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by xage(m): 2:35pm On Sep 12, 2015 |
makahlj2: What to excuse is not ur ignorance but your lack of attention to details rather...my response you quoted was a deliberate response to a direct question..which says 'How is Islam the beggining of civilization' why are you suddenly interested in skin? My response was tailored to the question and not to the caption of the topic of this thread. I hope you are well clarified friend? There are black Arabs though may not have been popular for major inventions.. Please research more on this if you are particular abot skin |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by djotoli: 7:27pm On Sep 14, 2015 |
all language are related to understand the original of what they call bantu you must take off the preffix and the suffix sinn in semitic mean theeth in lingala you put the preffix and a suffix i can not good explain english is not my language ok suffiw li and suffix u or o or mi the semitic suffix s out you have inn lingala preffix linn + suffix o =linno or linnu teeth eat in amharic is bla or bäla masc, femi you say bi, food in lingala become bilia eat become lia because there is no masc or femi water is the same maa or mayi in amharic sra or sära for work in banziri ubangian they use the preffix ko they kosara for work in lingala ubangian R become L work become kosala banziri work sara, amharic sära ,lingala sala in , geez umuntu mean people, plate in amharic is san in lingali you just put the suffix at end it become sani plate in lingala, in moro kordofan nda is the head anda become house in banziri ubangian and in lingala the banziri ubangian preffix disaper and you just put a suffix it become ndako for house hungry in banziri is nzara in lingala it become nzala for hungry malamu, molimo, na zali , malamu( good, fine , cool , shine ) there is preffix ma and suffix u the real word is lam, molimo ( soul ) mo, lim ,and u suffix now you can search in another linguage if you can find the origin the same meaning amhara is just like oromo if you put o not A it become omohro the difference for me is that oromo are related with water and amhara are real sedentary farmer there is lot like this white people only search from semitic to lingala the word bondoqiyya ( rifle in arabic ) but bondoqiyya is a semitic divinity related with lightning in lingala or bantu if you prefer that become mondoki for rifle and with the preffix bo became bondoki ( witchcraft ) and ndoki become witch there is a lot like this in many language all language in africa are related white people are onely search the disacord not unity among us the people what they call bantu are not bantu they are african from different origin different dna different culture and history around a proto language substrat |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by djotoli: 7:33pm On Sep 14, 2015 |
all language are related to understand the original of what they call bantu you must take off the preffix and the suffix sinn in semitic mean theeth in lingala you put the preffix and a suffix i can not good explain english is not my language ok in lingala you have preffix li, mi and suffix u or o or i the semitic suffix s out you have inn lingala preffix linn + suffix o =linno or linnu teeth eat in amharic is bla or bäla masc, femi you say bi, food in lingala become bilia eat become lia because there is no masc or femi water is the same maa or maï in amharic sra or sära for work in banziri ubangian they use the preffix ko they kosara for work in lingala ubangian R become L work become kosala banziri work sara, amharic sära ,lingala sala in , geez umuntu mean people, plate in amharic is san in lingali you just put the suffix at end it become sani plate in lingala, in moro kordofan nda is the head anda become house in banziri ubangian and in lingala the banziri ubangian preffix disaper and you just put a suffix it become ndako for house hungry in banziri is nzara in lingala it become nzala for hungry malamu, molimo, na zali , malamu( good, fine , cool , shine ) there is preffix ma and suffix u the real word is lam, molimo ( soul ) mo, lim ,and u suffix now you can search in another linguage if you can find the origin the same meaning amhara is just like oromo if you put o not A it become omohro the difference for me is that oromo are related with water and amhara are real sedentary farmer there is lot like this white people only search from semitic to lingala the word bondoqiyya ( rifle in arabic ) but bondoqiyya is a semitic divinity related with lightning in lingala or bantu if you prefer that become mondoki for rifle and with the preffix bo became bondoki ( witchcraft ) and ndoki become witch there is a lot like this in many language all language in africa are related white people are onely search the disacord not unity among us the people what they call bantu are not bantu they are african from different origin different dna different culture and history around a proto language substrat |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by PabloAfricanus(m): 3:22am On Nov 11, 2015 |
Radoillo: Apt and spot on. See if you can contribute to the last thread i commented on. That clown is not even sufficiently familiar with either the language or culture to pick out the holes in Lucas' historical improvisations. On ground evidence should match results/conclusions from any research work. Why didnt the Europeans come to black africa to decipher the Rosetta stone? 1 Like |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by jantavanta(m): 3:41pm On Jan 04, 2016 |
PabloAfricanus: They could not come down to Nigeria to decipher the Ikom Monoliths, because they could not use regional use proximity to claim this part of Africa, as they have been trying to do with Egypt. Why did they destroy the Nsude Pyramids? http://www.carcafriculture.org/docs/LEJJA%20THE%20DISCOVERY%20OF%20THE%20EGYPTIAN%20DUAT,%20TEMPLE%20OF%20THE%20SUN%20%20AND%20LOST%20CITY%20OF%20HELIOPOLIS%20IN%20WEST%20AFRICA.pdf Why did they pack away the artefacts of an entire civilization and tell us that it was only an Igbo Ukwu bronze pot http://www.carcafriculture.org/docs/THE%20GRAVE%20OF%20SARGON%20THE%20GREAT.pdf http://www.carcafriculture.org/Docs/IGBO%20UKWU%20-SHOCKING%20REVELATIONS%20BY%20CATHERINE%20ACHOLONU.docx |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Horus(m): 6:35am On Mar 31, 2017 |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Rossikk(m): 5:02pm On Apr 03, 2017 |
MrPresident1:Powerful and accurate. |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by AdeMarley: 5:15pm On Apr 04, 2017 |
Rossikk:Sir Rossikk I respect you and many Pan Africans on this forum,you all speak the truth as we are all in the journey of self realization, Mrpresidents is also on points as most of us here in southern Nigeria are the the true descendants of the biblical yisrealites,not the fake gentiles that reside there today,our undoing was our sins of idolatry which made way for our punishment today(read debut 281-68,Lev 26,read lamentation of prophet Jeremiah) We once and will soon rule the world,thats the good job our brother Jantavanta is showing to the masses,not just Europe but the whole WORLD ,the signs are there for the wise to see. Please brothers keep up with the good work don't allow negative comments bring down your vibrations. you may not know it but so many people are getting enlightened by your teachings and contributions. Blessed love 2 Likes |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by macof(m): 8:56am On Apr 26, 2018 |
Excerpts from leading works on the Yoruba - Egypt connection: seeing this piece of bullshit again after about 3 years. I've not seen any post as stupid and insulting to Yoruba history and traditions in 3 years 1 Like |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Nobody: 10:39am On Apr 26, 2018 |
The so called Moors weren’t Black or at least majority Black. They were predominantly non-black skinned Berber, Arab, Yemeni and Iberian of Muslim background. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by TSOM(m): 6:54pm On Apr 29, 2018 |
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Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by jbblues24(m): 9:52pm On Jun 01, 2019 |
Clean colours dude |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Eurasianberber: 10:14am On Aug 08, 2023 |
Incredible sad and delusional. First of all ot is been proven that the berbers are e1b1b which is an indegenous north african Berber dna not carried by bantus ,mixed with eurasian influence. The eurasian influence started 20 thousand years ago with u6 dna and others still today native in north africa but came from asia tens of thousand years ago(back migration). The today Spanish people are heavily mixed with Berber dna, and that is e1b1b . Not sub saharan marker. E1b1b seperated over tens of thousand years ago from other africans long before history. The moors were the most brutal slv trader of the sengalese and other sub saharan groups and were the Main reason for 1300 years saharan slve trade and atlantic slve trade. The morocons still have the same skin or looks like in any authentic picture. We cannot mistake that those pictures used were many times by other european made that never went to spain but simply made a random picture. There were sub saharans enslvd by the moors used in the army and sometimes build an identity yes. But they are not moors. Same with egypt or nubia. Ancient egypt tested mainly eurasian dna, and even pre arab invasion Christian nubia showed 60% eurasian. Which is seen in the ancient paintings of facial structures compared to the mostly eurasian looking egyptian. The biggest influence of sub saharan came through 1300 years of slv trade ,not vice versa. The arab invasion was tiny in number. When did the morocons become arabs if the moors were bantus? Moors were in spain thousand years not too long ago. So what happened after the moors were send back to moroco that changed them to be arabs? There were no such thing as wars Assimilation or mass migration. But i know its wrong to Appeal on logic. We have to use facts. Do a dna test and IT will not come back as african,as nubian or Berber. It will come back as gambian . If a morocon does a dna test it will come back as Berber related to the somali e1b1b people. Even somalis owned bantu slves and were seen by the italians as different. The entire racist lie of stealing Berber history is based on skin color while they still look the same as in the pictures lol. |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Eurasianberber: 10:21am On Aug 08, 2023 |
AdeMarley:You will not in any Alternative universe on this Planet ever come close to rule the World let alone rule africa. Africa was and still is ruled by the indegenous Berber and the eurasian arab backflow DNA. The indegenous e1b1b Berber somali dna is over 20 thousand years old just like the ancient eurasian arab influence there is over 20 thousand years old shown in u6 dna. Every single history in afr was a mainly eurasian by dna .average egyptian not even just Pharaos were tested as mainly eurasian. In fact todays egyptian are more mixed because of the 1300 years slve trade that caused a small increase in sub saharan dna there. Same with east africa and somali. Even somalis owned bantu slves. And when italians colonized somali they saw somalis as similar to themselves and instead took in bantus to work. Africa is the genetical most diverse continent on this Planet. The second you do a dna test you understand where ur origin is. The jews although mixed with europeans are still the ancient. Just like the palestinians are the ancient from pre historic times with small mixtures. There is no such thing as sub saharan outside of africa other than the aborigines. The first humans that left africa were of a somali dark skinned Euro looking people. |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Eurasianberber: 10:37am On Aug 08, 2023 |
makahlj2:There are no such thing as bl inventions. First of all the muslims civilized the Berber groups and the majority influence in spain and scientists were arabs or persians(mostly central asians one). There were a few Berber too but as ive already proven berbers were not black. Their skin Was sun adapted the same as it was today. But their dna was e1b1b just like today.there is no difference between a morocon today or a morocon 2000 years ago in dna and looks or any picture. In fact if anything there is more black influence today recently through migration to europe and 1300 saharan slve trade people seem to forget. North africans or east africans never in history were black but from 20 thousand years ago were a result of indegenous e1b1b Berber tribes mixture with ancient back to africa migration from the middle east as seen in u6 dna. This are mali Tuareg where many tribes show over 90% e1b1b Berber dna . As ive said today because of the bantu expansion and the saharan slve trade there is more mixture than in ancient times. Even 15 thousand years old remains of north african shows 2/3 of his dna being from arab levant and european farmer. The semitic language is created and spoken by the semitic people who are all genetic similar, arabs jews Mesopotamia etc. It swapped to east africa too ,which is why up to 60 % of somalis are eurasian origin.the egyptian ancient tested mainly eurasian too. Africa is proven to be the most genetic diverse continent on this earth. To literally claim and entire continent as a tribe is something only someone that doesnt live in africa and is desperate into denying his actual origin and history could do. The truth is seen in a dna test and will set the "kangs" free. Even nubians werent blck but a mixture. Ancient pre arab invasion nubia tested 60% eurasian. But dna does not matter right. If you see an ancient painting of a sun adapted indian ,arab,Berber, or anyone else it means he was not a somali with european Features, not a morocon. But he must clearly be from Gambia. Just crazy that at the actual Lands of kangs there were not kangs and basically anyone came to enslv
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Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by RowanLain: 3:21am On Aug 14, 2023 |
Eurasianberber: If the Italians truly saw Somalis as similar to themselves then clearly Italians held themselves in low regard. Now I certainly understand why the colonizers held the Fulani, Tutsis, Wahinda tribes in such high regard (they basically revered these particular tribes that they referred to as "Hamites" ), they're very intelligent. The British, German, French described them as EXTREMELY intelligent and even strikingly handsome and those appraisals still hold true till this day. However, Somalis couldn't be described as any of those things today (they're probably the most unintelligent, useless, untalented, unproductive, unattractive/deformed people on the planet) so I certainly don't believe that appraisal held true for them in the past. I guarantee very few white people see themselves in Somalis today. Just how I see it. |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Sladem05: 12:05pm On Jun 15 |
Situation001: They never ruled the world |
Re: When Black Men Ruled Europe: The Moors Of Spain by Sladem05: 12:02pm On Jun 16 |
gatiano: Yet you speak their language and your society is dominated by them 😂😂 |
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