According To 1.001 Invention And Awesome Facts From Muslim Civilization

Others might argue that the Muslim civilization’s contributions in literature were influential and affect the world today because they wrote poetry and short stories that provide knowledge about the Muslim culture at the time. According to the My World History textbook, most of the poetry was influenced by Sufism, which showed “their loyalty to God” (p2). While that may be true, Muslim literature didn’t change the world. It only allows people to learn about their culture, not like (communication) that changed the world with (using the carrier pigeon to deliver mail). The Muslim civilization produced the most influential innovations in communications that changed and still affects the world today because before Al-Khindi’s research, many thought substitution ciphers were unbreakable. For example, According to 1,001 Inventions & Awesome Facts From Muslim Civilization, when the Muslim civilization used carrier pigeons to deliver letters and messages across great distances, innovations in code-making and code- breaking were used to keep the information private. According to the book, the 9th century scholar, Al-Khindi of Baghdad, noticed “certain letters were used more frequently than others” (p76). This idea turned into the well-known code-breaking method of “frequency analysis,” which substitutes the letters in a message with other letters or

Including this, 1,001 Inventions & Awesome Facts From Muslim Civilization states on page 77 that Al-Khindi wrote the book Treatise on Deciphering Cryptographic Messages, which was the beginning of modern