Father of Robotics: Al-Jazari
By Neenah Payne Al-Jazari (1136-1206), whose full name was Al-Shaykh Ra’is al-A`mal Badi`al-Zaman Abu al-‘Izz ibn Isma`il ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, worked as chief engineer at…
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Father of Sociology, Historiography, Economics: Ibn Khaldun
By Neenah Payne Abd al-Rahman Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami (1332-1406), known in the West as “Ibn Khaldun”, was a sociologist, historiographer, economist, and philosopher….
Discoverer of Blood Circulation: Ibn al-Nafis
By Neenah Payne We are told that William Harvey (1578–1657) discovered the circulation of the blood. So, it will come as a surprise to learn…
It’s A Trap! The Wave Of Repercussions As The Middle East Fights “The Last War”
By Brandon Smith Few people are familiar with a little event around 1200 BC called the Bronze Age Collapse in the region known as the…
World’s First True Scientist: Ibn al-Haytham
By Neenah Payne Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965-1039) was the founder of the scientific method, the founder of modern optics, a pioneer in astronomy, and invented…
Father of Modern Surgery: Al-Zahrawi/Abulcasis
By Neenah Payne Ibn Sina/Avicenna: Founder of Western Medicine explains that we are told that Hippocrates (450 BCE to 380 BCE), a Greek physician, was…
How The Concept of Zero Changed The World!
By Neenah Payne How would you use Roman numerals to add or subtract – much less multiply or divide?! Today, we take the Arabic numbering…
The Father of Algebra: Al-Khwarizmi
By Neenah Payne Islamic civilization served as the main source of science and philosophy in the West for six centuries between 1000 and 1600 CE….
Al-Razi: A Father of Western Medicine
By Neenah Payne Ibn Sina/Avicenna: Founder of Western Medicine explains that we are told that Hippocrates (450 BCE to 380 BCE), a Greek physician, was…
Ibn Rushd/Averroes: Grandfather of European Enlightenment
By Neenah Payne Americans are taught to revere Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. We are told that after the fall of Rome about 500…
“A National Crime” (a balanced look at the residential school systems)
By John C.A. Manley In my novel, Much Ado About Corona, one of the indigenous characters, affectionately called “Granddad” by the people of Moosehead, was…
Ibn Sina/Avicenna: Founder of Western Medicine
By Neenah Payne We are told that Hippocrates (450 BCE to 380 BCE), a Greek physician, was the founder of Western medicine. Doctors today take…
Where Did Indo-Europeans Languages Come From?
By Neenah Payne DNA Shows Europeans Were Dark Skinned 10,000 Years Ago explains that the first Italians, the Etruscans, were Black. It links to Secret…
Maryam Henein on The Sarah Westall Show: Rewriting History
By Maryam Henein Investigative journalist, Maryam Henein, joins the great Sarah Westall on The Sarah Westall Show to discuss history being changed in real time,…