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| <option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=The Story of Umm Qirfa|2=[[File:Umm-Qirfa tied between two camels-pictorial-Islam-small.jpg|300px|link=The Story of Umm Qirfa]]|3=Umm Qirfa was an old Arab woman contemporaneous to Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. She belonged to a pagan tribe named Banu Fazara at Wadi Al-Qurra. This old woman who was also a chief of her clan was killed when Muhammad’s followers raided her tribe and won over them. She was tied between two camels which were driven in opposite directions and her body was split apart. Later her decapitated head was presented to Muhammad as a gift who ordered it to be paraded throughout the streets of Medina. ([[The Story of Umm Qirfa|''read more'']])}}</option> | | <option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=The Story of Umm Qirfa|2=[[File:Umm-Qirfa tied between two camels-pictorial-Islam-small.jpg|300px|link=The Story of Umm Qirfa]]|3=Umm Qirfa was an old Arab woman contemporaneous to Prophet Muhammad. She belonged to a pagan tribe named Banu Fazara at Wadi Al-Qurra. This old woman who was also a chief of her clan was killed when Muhammad’s followers raided her tribe and won over them. She was tied between two camels which were driven in opposite directions and her body was split apart. Later her decapitated head was presented to Muhammad as a gift. He then ordered it to be paraded throughout the streets of Medina. ([[The Story of Umm Qirfa|''read more'']])}}</option> |
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Revision as of 18:13, 20 May 2013
Also see: Template:Pictorial-Islam
How Islamic Inventors Did Not Change The World
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These past few years have seen many inventions falsely claimed and attributed to Islamic inventors, which in fact either existed in pre-Islamic eras, were invented by other cultures, or both. Such claims have even been forced upon the unsuspecting public in a nationwide tour which opened with an exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and the University of Manchester, England. To celebrate this series of events, an article titled “How Islamic inventors changed the world” was written by Paul Vallely and published in The Independent. This article lists and examines all twenty of these “Islamic inventors/inventions that changed the world”, and in doing so, it will reveal their actual inventors and the true role of Islam/Muslims, if any, behind the inventions. (read more)
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