One Step Away From the Biggest Oil Shock in History
By Nick Giambruno The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow strip of water that links the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world. It’s…
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US Sends 900 Troops to Middle East as Attacks Continue
By Dave DeCamp The Pentagon said on Thursday that about 900 troops are in the process of deploying to the Middle East as the US…
Al-Biruni: Greatest Muslim Polymath
By Neenah Payne The great Persian scientist Abū al-Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Bīrūnī (973-1048) is considered the greatest of the Muslim polymaths. Born in Kath,…
Father of Aviation: Abbas Ibn Firnas
By Neenah Payne Americans take flying across the country and around the world for granted now. However, even as late at the 1960s, only the…
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…
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…
Israel Will Win This Iran-funded War
Activist Post Editor’s Note: Longtime readers should know quite well where we stand on the various conflicts around the world, but for new readers, it’s…
Middle East Turmoil Could Mean More Market Volatility Ahead
By Stefan Gleason Crude oil futures shot up over the weekend while gold prices gained and global stock markets teetered ahead of U.S. markets opening…
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….