{"id":2717,"date":"2018-09-05T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:33:20","slug":"muslim-heritage-discover-the-golden-age-of-muslim-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/muslim-heritage-discover-the-golden-age-of-muslim-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Heritage: Discover the golden age of Muslim civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Muslim Heritage<\/a><\/em> is a web portal launched by the \u201cFoundation for Science and Technology and civilisation\u201d (FSTC) in 2002. This is one of its major projects in the study of Muslim heritage with the purpose of advancing human civilization. It is an online education community of Muslims and non-Muslims, which aims to raise awareness on the relevance and importance of Muslim heritage. The portal contains thousands of peer reviewed articles, numerous reports and essays, as well as news on Muslim heritage related topics and events.<\/p>\n

The portal is well organized and materials are classified based on main subjects (i.e. Science, environment, culture and people, etc.) and then sub-classified (i.e. Astronomy, chemistry, Medicine, Architecture, Art, Agriculture, Geography, etc.). Moreover the searching features helps to retrieve information in different formats faster and easier.<\/p>\n

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The idea for the founding of the FSTC was initiated by a professor of Mechanical engineering at the University of Manchester, with the hope to establish an organization to research inventions and the cultural roots of early discoveries that originated in non-western world and which still affect our world. This organization is a non-political, non-sectarian and non-religious in approach and its mission is stated as:<\/p>\n

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