DDHK. ORG – Muslim engineers have made major contributions to civilization world. Did you know that Islamic civilization in its golden era has made such a large contribution in the field of civil engineering?
In its heyday, these engineers have succeeded in building a series of major works in the field of civil engineering in the form of; dams, bridges, street lighting, irrigation, to skyscrapers.
But strangely, the various great works of Muslim scientists in the field of civil engineering have never been disclosed by civil engineering historians.
When tracing the history of the development of civil engineering, the success stories and achievements that were inscribed by Muslim engineers in the Middle Ages were not mentioned at all.
Launch Republika, western civilization, through civil engineering historians seem to cover up the success and ignore the achievements that have been inscribed by these engineers.
Western efforts to cover up the success of Muslim engineers in the era of the caliphate also invited protests and criticism among civil engineering historians in the Western world.
"It is very unfair and untrue," said Norman Smith in his book A History of Dams responding to the attitude of a number of Western historians who do not recognize the achievements of Muslim civil engineers.
Instead of acknowledging the success of Muslim engineers, historians of Western civil engineering have even accused the Ummayad and Abbasid Dynasties of building dams, irrigation, and other engineering activities as having drastically decreased.
The history of civil engineering written by the West states that the first civil engineer in the world was John Smeaton who lived in the 18th century AD.
Smeaton claims to be the first civil engineer to be able to build the Eddystone Lighthouse. In fact, long before that in the 9th century AD, Islamic civilization already had a prominent civil engineer named Al-Farghani.
Apart from that there is also the name of Al-Jazari, a prominent civil engineer from the 13th century AD.
So that's about Muslim engineers who contribute to civilization in the world. what do you think? [DDHK News]
