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It is stated that: "Those who crusaded to the Moslem world returned with items such as "improved armor and fortifications, military use of carrier pigeons and heraldry, knightly tournaments and concepts of chivalry." (Ibid)

III. Mathematics

It is revealed in the work "Great Religions of the World" that the mathematician al-Khwarizmi an astronomer from Baghdad is the individual who "introduced 'Arabic' numerals and the decimal system of India and wrote the standard treatise on al-jabr - algebra." (Ibid)

IV. Language

Words such as 'cipher, 'alcohol', 'almanac', 'logarithm', 'soda', 'antimony', 'azimuth' and 'zenith' are all words that were "bequeathed to our language" by Moslem science. (National Geographic, 1971)

V. Philosophy

One of the most notable gains in Europe; through the Islamic religion were the gains in philosophy when Greek philosophy was introduced into Europe by the writings of al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.

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It is stated that al-

Farabi "wrote an important work on the theory of music, dealing with intervals, scales, rhythm, and acoustics. Moslem musicians also contributed to the development of musical notation and the establishment of time values." (New Standard Encyclopedia, 1984)

Summary and Conclusion

This work has shown the many contributions to the European continent during the course of what is termed "the sweep of Islam" (National Geographic, 1971) evidenced in the introduction of new foods, war articles, new words, mathematics and science contributions and the awakening of Europe to the Greek philosophy as the Islam scientists and writers translated this philosophy into a language that Europe could understand......

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