UK Schools Receive Free Copy of Muslim Science Textbook

An educational foundation has appear affairs to deliver chargeless books to UK schools to highlight the accurate and cultural bequest of Muslim civilisation. 1001 Inventions is the abstraction of the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) – a arrangement of academics committed to debunking the allegory of the alleged “Dark Ages of Civilisation”.

Last month, atheism activist Richard Dawkins appear affairs to deliver chargeless DVDs to UK schools. Whilst FSTC does not accede it’s 1001 Inventions attack a absolute claiming to Dawkins, it does achievement to animate agitation about the accord amid science, acceptance and culture.

FSTC has campaigned for academy curriculums to accede the accurate achievements of Muslim acculturation for added than a decade. While the Dawkins campaign, accurate by the British Humanist Association, positions science and adoration as opposing forces, the 1001 Inventions activity reminds us that for 1000 years the religious and the accurate were adequate bedfellows and led to aberrant artlessness to new account and amusing change.

The book that accompanies the activity is advantaged 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World and highlights the thousand years of social, accurate and abstruse achievements that are currently under-recognised in schools’ textbooks. The activity aspires to bear at atomic 3000 copies of the book to UK schools by October 2009, and is gluttonous accessible abutment for the attack through a advocacy arrangement (as has Dawkins).

Professor Salim Al-Hassani, arch editor of the book, explained: “The aeon amid the 7th and 17th centuries, that has been afield labeled ‘The Dark Ages’ was in actuality a time of aberrant accurate and cultural advance in China, India and the Arab world. This is the aeon in history that gave us the aboriginal manned flight, huge advances in engineering, the development of robotics and the foundations of avant-garde mathematics, allure and physics.

“Whilst the Dawkins DVD teaches adolescent humans about ‘the beginning accurate method’, it fails to point out that it was pioneered by a religious physicist alleged Ibn-Al Haytham, who saw no battle in accepting both a Muslim and a scientist. Our attack is alive to acquaint the adventure of the cultural origins of our present day science. A adventure that is generally missing from our textbooks.”

The 1001 Inventions attack was launched by the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC); a not-for-profit, non-religious and non-political anatomy based in the UK but accurate by academics from above the globe. The activity has admiring the abutment of arch educators, scientists and politicians.

The book 1001 Inventions comes with a DVD, a affiche set for classrooms, a chargeless Teachers Pack and assignment plans. A civic attack will be launched in September above the UK auspicious parents and agents to accommodate accouchement with a fair and accurate compassionate of the debt avant-garde association owes to added civilisations.

Further advice is accessible at www.1001inventions.com or by visiting www.MuslimHeritage.com, which are the world’s arch online sources for Muslim ancestry information.

About 1001 Inventions
1001 Inventions is a non-religious and non-political project, with bookish abutment and overview, which works to highlight the accurate and cultural roots of present day civilisation

The addition that Muslim and added civilisations accept fabricated to the avant-garde apple in which we abide has been broadly overlooked. The activity believes that the history of accurate and abstruse advance demonstrates the aggregate ancestry of humanity, which can advice societies acknowledge their aggregate cultural and abstruse inheritance.

Such acknowledgment can accomplish a cogent addition to interfaith dialogue, civic harmony, association accord and cultural convergence.

Interviews with 1001 Inventions are accessible aloft request.