stealing?

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

Two active and well-known Scholars who had scholarly worked on the issue of Muslim contribution and how it was "adapted" by the west without mentioning the original contributors:

1- Prof. Abdel Hamid Sabra (Harvard University)

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~sabra/

He is the one who edited the great work by Ibn Al Haitham "Al Manazir" and proved the "adoption" of Newton to Ibn Al Haitham light theory.

2- Prof. George Saliba (Columbia University)

http://www.columbia.edu/~gas1/saliba.html

He proved the "plagiarism" of Copernicus to the work of Muslim astronomer Ibn El Shatir:

http://video.google.com/videoplay...908367#docid=-4878285582560481884

Another stolen idea from the Muslim Scholars is "Gravity Theory" which was very well know and Al Bairuni wrote about it long before Newton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gravitational_theory
(BTW, the apple story of Newton is a complete MYTH)

Useful link on Ibn Sina issue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicenna