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Influences of Islam - Coggle Diagram
Influences of Islam
Medicine
In 805 the Baghdad hospital was built and it was home to a medical school and a library, Christian hospitals were just for caring for people whereas this hospital was treating patients
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The Islam world had some of the first ever hospitals and some of the highest quality hospitals of the 8th century.
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Muslims had several influences on surgery. They used cannabis and opium as anesthetics, they discovered that you can use alcohol and mercury as antiseptics, Al-Zaharwi wrote the first medical book that had clear uses of surgery equipment and it came with pictures and diagrams.
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Astrology
Early Muslims relied on the Sun and the Moon to accurately calculate the time and direction of Mecca, they had to know the sunrise and sunset for fasting in Ramadan, and know the phases of the moon to know when it is a new month
Nobles would use astrology to give advice to rulers to make big desicions, or sometimes figure out the future of a kingdom
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Mathematics
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Their holy book the Qur'an inspired and encouraged the Muslim to search for knowledge and in came a golden age of Islamic mathematics and science for a long period of time in the middle ages.
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Food
A Islamic Shepard of the name Khalid discovered coffee and coffee beans in Ethiopia when a goat was eating coffee beans he made the choice to ground it boil it. The Shepard called it al-qahwa
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This influenced peoples mornings nowadays as a lot of people drink coffee religiously, every single morning
Architecture
The Islamic architecture style is very unique and used intricate patterns, the most common colours were sand and clay like colours as well as orange stone, lime rock and clay
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Language
First university ever was built in Morocco in 895 C.E to help the local Muslims and other people who follow Islam learn about the Qur'an and to teach Arabic.
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Music
In early Islamic times when Muhammad was still alive the types of music that were popular would be war songs, Pilgrimage chants, and festival songs
In-between wars and during wars music would be used to entertain and motivate people, Islamic music became very popular, the courts would be full of musicians as well
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