The Islamic civilisation's love affair with the sciences is deeply rooted in its culture and history. In past centuries, Islamic World scholars of various ethnicities and religious persuasions invented several of the mathematical disciplines and empirical techniques that eventually led to modern astronomy, chemistry, medicine, computing, and many other fields of scientific inquiry. For hundreds of years Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and other scholars, working under the umbrella of a progressive Islamic civilisation, dominated the world scene in these disciplines as well as in many others such as philosophy, music (then considered a science) and architecture. The fact that the brightest visible stars in the sky have Arabic names and that Western musicians still use clefs derived from Arabic letters bears witness to that glorious era of "Eastern" science.
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Adnan Kapidzic (Canadian of Bosnian origin)
Ardiel Soeker (Canadian of South African origin)
Bahram Heidari (Canadian of Iranian origin)
Tahir Awan (Canadian of Pakistani origin)
Youssef Hilali (Canadian of Moroccan origin)
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