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Many people are surprised when they learn of the tremendous debt modern science holds to Islam and the Arab world. Indeed, although most imagine the origins of science to be a Western phenomenon, arguably the greatest influences upon modern science today actually stem from the Islamic World.

During the height of the Middle Ages, the Islamic world was enjoying a tremendous high point of scientific, social, and academic learning. Great cities including Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo and Moorish Cordoba were the epicenters of "civilization" as we now know it. Take, for example the great academic center that was Cordoba, the capital of then, Muslim Spain....

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Not only was it one of the first of the world's "universities," drawing students from around the globe, but it also was the home of the largest library in all of Europe. Moreover, the fact that the Cordoba "university" was descended from Muslim colleges that had been developed in as early as the late 600's, while the University of Paris and Oxford were only to be founded in the thirtieth century (founded by trusts that can be traced back to models of the early Islamic legal system), demonstrates the great debt modern academics have to the Islamic model.
In mathematics, Muslims are directly responsible for the development of the concept of zero, as well as the decimal system.

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Aftab, Macksood. "How Islam Influenced Science." The Islamic Herald. March, 1995. Retrived on October 10, 2004, from, http://www.geocities.com/zahidtg2/Science/science_influence.htm
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