During his study of Islamic art he came to the conclusion that after the Islamic Golden Age in Art, most of Islamic designs in different countries began to follow the same patterns and outlines, and that they are repeating the same concepts century after century, and concluded that this movement needed some innovation.
In the medieval Islamic world in particular, Muslim pharmacists and chemists developed advanced methods of compounding drugs.
These methodologies were later applied to other historical figures in the Islamic civilization.
A notable aspect of the book is the bringing into contrast of the refinements of the medieval Islamic civilization, which had been adopted by the Outremer noblemen, with the comparatively stark and crude European living conditions of the time, and the suggestion that the returning Crusaders brought Eastern standards of culture to the West.
During the Golden Age of Arabic, many works on shatranj were written, recording for the first time the analysis of opening games, chess problems, the knight's tour, and many more subjects common in modern chess books.
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By the 11th century, stamp mills were in widespread use throughout the medieval Islamic world, from Islamic Spain and North Africa in the west to Central Asia in the east.
Pseudo-Archimedes is a name given to an unknown source quoted by various sources of the Islamic Golden Age such as Al-Jazari as a reference for the construction of water clocks.
He made his mark by utilising applied modern engineering analysis to recreate, in virtual 3D space, ancient machines, especially those invented during the Golden Age such as the machines of Al-Jazari and Taqi al-Din.