2 Januari 1492M

Tarikh 2 Januari 1492M merupakan titik akhir buat kerajaan Nasriyyah di Granada yang rata-rata kita mengenal Alhambra kerananya.Kerajaan Nasriyyah cukup dekat buatku kerana tesis ijazah sarjana muda ku di UKM bertajuk Sultan Muhammad V Ghani bi-Allah:Satu Kajian Biografi dan Sumbangannya.Kegemilangan kerajaan Nasriyyah berlaku ketika zaman pemerintahan baginda.

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Ketika Sultan Muhammad 12 menunggang kuda meninggalkan Kota Alhambra, beliau menangis teresak-esak sambil berpaling melihat kota yang indah ini buat kali yang terakhir. Ibunya menghampiri dan berkata...

“Janganlah kau menangis seperti seorang wanita untuk apa yang engkau tidak dapat pertahankan seperti seorang lelaki”

Sejarah Perang Salib

Setelah sekian lama aku tak study sejarah, maka mari kita rangsang sel-sel otak kita dengan tonton dokumentari tentang Perang Salib ni.Masa aku sem 5 dulu, subjek Perang Salib ini ada ditawarkan sebagai subjek elektif pelajar major Sejarah dan Tamadun Islam tapi aku tak ambik.Dokumentari ni diterbitkan oleh Aljazeera.Jangan risau, ianya dalam bahasa Inggeris.Boleh subscribe akaun youtube Al Jazeera English untuk tonton kesinambungan sejarah Perang Salib ni.

International Coffee Day‬

Coffee Houses and Coffee Culture has spread to the Europe and World from the Ottoman Empire.

1300 Years of Islamic History in 3 Minutes

Video ni diterbitkan oleh Lost Islamic History.Boleh tengok page fb mereka.Bagus untuk sesiapa yang baru nak dapat gambaran awal secara keseluruhan sejarah Islam selama 1300 tahun..

Islamic History Facts #Islam Scholars#Medical Field

• Hundreds of years before Darwin, in the 800s the Iraqi zoologist al-Jahiz pioneered the idea of natural selection as an explanation for how animals adapted traits that suited their environments.This page is from al-Jahiz's "Book of Animals".

• "Man breathes air which may carry various kinds of infections...so man's experiments and investigations have led him to build up the sciences for medical and veterinary services." - al-Biruni (973-1050), who lived in Central Asia and India. In Europe, they did not "discover" that diseases were spread by pathogens until the 1800s, whereas it was common knowledge in the Muslim world.
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• In the 13th century, Ibn al-Nafis discovered the process of pulmonary circulation of blood through the lungs. Before him, people believed blood seeped from one side of the heart to the other through small holes in the septum. 
• In the 10th century, al-Zahrawi was the first to use catgut to close internal stitches in surgery. The same material and procedure is used today.
• In the 900s, al-Zahrawi revolutionized surgery and took it from a barbaric guessing game to a real science. Many of the ideas and methods he invented are still in use today.
• Long before modern mental health, al-Razi specialized in how to treat and care for those who have mental illnesses in the 900s.

Islamic History Facts #Islam Scholars#Physics Geography

• In the early 1000s, Ibn al-Haytham wrote about gravitational pull between two masses - 600 years before Newton.

• The first person to insist on an empirical study of science, the scientific method, was the Muslim scholar Ibn al-Haytham in the 11th century.

• The water pumps we all rely on today to bring water to our homes was designed by a Muslim inventor, al-Jazari in 1206 in Diyarbakir, Turkey.

• In the early 11th century, Ibn al-Haytham accurately calculated the depth of the atmosphere by using trigonometry and the refraction of sunlight. It was only when satellites were invented in the 20th century that he was proven right.

• In the early 1000s, the mathematician and engineer, al-Karaji, wrote a book on the extraction of groundwater for irrigation. Not only did he describe the engineering aspects of bringing up groundwater, but he also wrote of the legal aspects of water rights, and referenced the schools of Islamic law (fiqh) in his analysis.

• Your GPS uses trigonometry to calculate position. In the 800s, so did al-Nayrizi to calculate position relative to Makkah for salah.

• In 956, the geographer al-Masudi drew a world map that included a new continent across the ocean from Africa and labelled it the "unknown land". That was 536 years before Columbus.

Islamic History Facts #Ottoman Empire

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• Pernah seorang ahli parlimen Turki bertanya kepada Lord Curzon, sebaik tamat perang dunia pertama tahun 1922, di Persidangan Lausanne, persidangan yang menjanjikan kemerdekaan Republik Turki. "Kenapa hanya Turki yang dimerdekakan, sedangkan negara-negara Arab yang lain masih di bawah pemerintahan kolonial?". Lord Curzon menjawab, 'Hakikatnya Turki telah dimusnahkan dan tidak akan bangkit lagi kerana kita telah menghancurkan kekuatannya iaitu Khalifah dan Islam."
• 8 April 1924, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk telah membubarkan Mahkamah Shariah yang wujud sebagai legasi Dawlah Uthmaniyyah. Undang-undang baru yang berinspirasikan penal code Itali diperkenalkan.
• ''Jika dunia ini sebuah negara,maka Costantinople yang paling layak menjadi ibu negaranya.''-Napoleon Bonaparte- 
• By age 21, Ottoman sultan Mehmed II was fluent in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
• "Coffee was first introduced by Yemeni Muslims in the 1400s. When the Ottoman Empire grew to encompass the Arabian Peninsula, coffee spread north to Istanbul and from there to the rest of Europe."
• After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, Sultan Mehmed II allowed the city's Christians to continue to live in the city as they had before, and even encouraged Christian immigration to the city from surrounding lands.
• The Ottoman palace in Istanbul, Topkapı Sarayı, had a massive kitchen in order to feed over 4000 fasting people every day in Ramadan. The tradition of free public food in Ramadan exists in Turkey till today.
• Ataturk's reform of the Turkish language was meant to remove the influence of Arabic and Persian on Turkish and restore it to its pure Turkic roots. But many of the Arabic words removed from the language were simply replaced with French and English words. For example, the Ottoman Turkish word for political party "fırka" which originally came from Arabic was replaced with "parti", which was taken from French.
• The idea of vaccination was introduced to England from the Ottoman Empire in the 1720s. The wife of an English ambassador observed smallpox vaccinations in Istanbul which were very common and brought the practice back to England, where it was popularized and helped end smallpox entirely.