The Positive Impact of Islam on Europe
The Ottoman Empire started
conquering Europe in 14th century and by 15th century had most of Eastern
Europe under its kingdom. Although traces of Islam have been found a long
before Ottoman Empire but Islam flourished appropriately when the Ottoman
Empire ruled Europe. Historians are of the point of view that Islam laid the
foundation of modern Europe and it is in fact the reality. History has noticed
Europe dominating the world in the past centuries through its knowledge and
power but if we study the early invention of mathematics, physics and astronomy,
not surprisingly; all the credit goes to the Muslim world of science. Muslim
mathematicians worked in every field of mathematics such as Al-Jabir founded
algebra. Galileo and Newton, the great scientists of their time, would never
have been able to formulate the modern theories of mathematics and physics
without the basic and important tools invented by Muslim scientists.
Plato and
Aristotle laid the institution of classical writing and texts in ancient Europe
but these sculptures were lost in the history and were almost doomed during the
Dark Age. It was again Muslims who acted as the caretakers of those important
writings and preserved them. Even some of that work was present only in Arabic.
Ibne-Rushd, a Muslim, known as Averroes in Europe, had a major name in this
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European explorers are famous for
their voyages and explorations but it was only made possible by the accurate
maps produced by the Muslim mapmakers. These maps paved the way for European
explorers to discover new worlds in minimum time span.
This is only the tiny amount of
donation made by Islam to Europe directly or indirectly. According to global
news, there are about 53 million Muslims
in Europe. Islam has become the fastest growing religion in Europe and all over
the world, there has been establishment of new mosques all over Europe and even
non-Muslims are visiting these mosques. The rate of conversion to Islam shot in
the recent years especially after 9/11 attacks when Muslims were accused of it.
It was the time when non-Muslims especially Christians were more interested to
find out about Islam, Qura'an and the teachings of Holy Prophet (PBUH). Although
Islam was manipulated to be the religion of extremism and terrorism but when
these individuals studied Islam, their views changed and they found Islam to be
the complete code of life and the best religion of the world. So they adopted
it after their vast researches. The Muslim immigrants from the Muslim world to
Europe living there for decades are clear symbols of peace loving Muslim
culture.
Today media, in Europe especially,
talks a lot about the the disrespect given to women in Islam, but in fact, this
is not true. Islam is the only religion that has raised the prestige of women
from one of the poorly humiliated creature, in Western culture, to that of a
respectful being possessing equal rights to man. Under the wrong ideological
concept of child marriage by the non-Muslims, the Muslims have been criticized
by the western media but in fact there is no concept of child marriage in Islam
and such incidents are purely restricted to few old custom tribes.