1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets

Although the movie is short, 13 minutes, it is still a remarkable production - more of a documentary - that talks about the Golden Ages of the Muslims as opposed to the Dark Ages the West lived in during that Islamic Era.

In its brief duration, a librarian (Ben Kingsley) helps a Middle School group of three students in fixing their preconceived notions about what's called the Dark Ages in the West. It is actually the Golden Ages as far as the Muslims are concerned, since their civilization at that time had been filled with discoveries, inventions, developments, prosperity and other innovative accomplishments in many fields. A number of Muslim inventors, scholars and scientists such as Ibn Al-Haitham, Abbas Ibn Firnas, Abu Al-Qassim Al-Zahrawi, and others, are personified and enacted. Each presents their achievement and thus contribution to the modern world in a very interesting manner.

You finish watching this with a feel of enlightenment, appreciation and justice towards a people and a religion that have been gravely mistreated and misrepresented.

Kudos to Alan Deankins, Ben Kingsley, and whoever took part in making this.

*Highly Recommended*.

It's a very short discussion about inventions in the dark ages as some people call it. A very famous names of inventors and their cool inventions. Which are still represent a great deal of our lives. . Or maybe developed hundreds of years later to become great inventions and facilitate our lives.

Scientists such as Al-Jazari, Ibn Alhaitham...etc. As it's a very short video; you can always learn more using Google. Just look for Ibn Sina, Alrazy... and other Muslim scientists or go the website 1001inventions and see what Hillary_Clinton and others say about this project.

Some people don't like the fact that most of these inventions were discovered by Muslim scientists at that age, but it's the truth as Europe where swamped with what they call dark age wars... plus Islam encourage science