Dbq Essay On Islamic Americans

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Muslims have been know for making advancements in religion as well as its many practices. Though, even in light of this fact Muslims are often perceived as lacking in impact. In particular they were never thought to make impacts in technology or science, etc. This is due to the fact that Muslim accomplishments are always overlooked and aren't given credit. Especially so in favor of the scandalous, extremist activities wrongly attributed to Muslims. The truth of the matter is, however, Muslims have done amazing things to change lives and effect science, medicine, technology,language,etc. One of the most important Muslim accomplishments is learning. According to document 2, it describes how,"The city boasted... 800 public schools...." This means how the Muslims wanted the people of Cordova to learn, and get closer to God. In document 1, it states,"Caliph al-ma'mun opened...the house of wisdom, scholars...worked translating texts." This impacted the world because if the scholars didn't translate the texts, they would be lost or not understandable. Overall without Muslims dedicating so much time into learning, …show more content…

Document 2 explains why this is important,"the city boasted 37 libraries, numberless bookstores...." This illustrates how the people of Cordova wanted to expand Muslim beliefs in books or poems, this also shows how they put their history in the libraries to be protected. Document 3 states,"Ibn Sina's five-volume encyclopedia guided doctors of Europe and Southwest Asia for six centuries." This means that Islamic techniques and practices were so advanced that other civilizations used the same ideas, what this also shows is how Muslims devoted many hours, days, months, even years to get the best technique for it to still be the best way for six centuries. Overall without Muslims learning how to preserve books and make books and libraries, most famous stories, poems, would be gone and unknown

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