http://attalib.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-muslim-inventors-changed-world.html
...though I agree with a commentator I read who said that at least some of these pre-date islam and should rather be stated as...middle eastern?
Anyways, here's a taste for those who haven't read it.
And one more...which I have heard dates back to the egyptians and so may be an example of an adaptation, development, or re-statement of much older practices.
The important point, for me, is not the religion of the people involved, rather it is that where religion leaves people in peace (and where there are no wars being fought by anyone else), and where ancient knowledge is stored and built upon, there we get development...by trial and error but also by that accretion of knowledge...sorta like Babel... Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
