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Muslim inventions that shaped the Modern World
World First Flying machine
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Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to build a flying machine and fly using it. In the 9th century he designed a winged machine, roughly resembling a bird like object.
In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and seriously hurt himself.
His designs would unquestionably have been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci's hundreds of years later.
Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn Firnas ibn Wirdas al-Takurini, also known as Abbas ibn Firnas, Latinized Armen Firman, was a Berber Andalusian polymath: an inventor, astronomer, physicist, chemist, mathematician engineer, Andalusi musician, and Arabic-language poet. He was reported to have experimented with a form of flight. Wikipedia
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Islamic Calligraphy is a historical and well-known visual art form where artists use a pen, ink brush or other writing tools to design and write a text. Calligraphy had been considered a very valuable skill in society. An ancient Arabic prover says, “Purity of writing is purity of the soul”.
The development of calligraphy shows how important writing and written text has been in our history.
The calligraphy has been applied to a variety of materials including paper, papyrus, parchment, tiles, vessels, carpets, stones and coins.
As Islam spread the culture was adopted by other languages also including Persian, Urdu and Ottoman.
If you are curious how Arabic
Calligraphy looks with different fonts, you can try out a free Arabic https://www.arabiccalligraphygenerato r.com/
Calligraphic tool on the web.
It allow to write your name in English, then using Yamli, the words are transliterated to Arabic. It allows selection of three different scripts.
