Islamic civilization

Jerusalem holds a great status for the Muslims, because in this great city al-Aqsa Mosque is located.It is the first Qiblah (direction of prayers) for Muslims, and the third mosque for which Muslims are encouraged to travel to after the two holy mosques.

What is the Islamic civilization ? What are the most distinctive features of the Islamic civilization in comparison to other civilizations? How could the Islamic civilization embrace the different cultures and diverse languages? How could it form all of that into one entity? How could Muslims with their newborn civilization spread sciences, knowledge, sophistication and development in the east and west?

The video sheds light to the most important contributions of Muslims in five fields: Hygiene, optics and photography, health and hospitals, education, and mathematics represented in algebra.

The video gives an account on how Islam reached Egypt, North Africa, West Africa, southern Europe by establishing al-Andalus.