muslims have no contribution towards the progress of human civilisation

I did realize that the main sticking point would be whether or not science is forbidden by Islam. I still have to complete my brief of showing contribution of Muslims. People can contribute to the society in a variety of ways; I have chosen to limit the scope of this debate to science, agriculture and translation (of literature). I have already mentioned contributions; my opponent must demonstrate that these contributions violate the principles of Islam. I will now attempt to demonstrate that these contributions do not violate the principles of Islam (sharing of burden of proof).---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some information related to this debate, the reader should read the un-italicised part even if they are familiar with the italisized part. Wiki: Sharia, shariah, sharīʿah or shariat[1] (Arabic: شريعة‎ šarīʿah, IPA: [ʃaˈriːʕa], "way" or "path") is the code of conduct or religious law of Islam. Most Muslims believe sharia is derived from two primary sources of Islamic law: the precepts set forth in theQuran, and the example set by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Sunnah. Fiqh jurisprudence interprets and extends the application of sharia to questions not directly addressed in the primary sources by including secondary sources. These secondary sources usually include the consensus of the religious scholars embodied in ijma, and analogy from the Quran and Sunnah through qiyas. Shia jurists prefer to apply reasoning ('aql) rather than analogy in order to address difficult questions. http://en.wikipedia.org... Legal scholar L. Ali Khan claims that "the concept of sharia has been thoroughly confused in legal and common literature. For some Muslims, sharia consists of the Quran and Sunnah. For others, it also includes classical fiqh. Most encyclopedias define sharia as law based upon the Quran, the Sunnah, and classical fiqh derived from consensus (ijma) and analogy (qiyas). This definition of sharia lumps together the revealed with the unrevealed. This blending of sources has created a muddled assumption that scholarly interpretations are as sacred and beyond revision as are the Quran and the Sunnah. The Quran and the Sunnah constitute the immutable Basic Code, which should be kept separate from ever-evolving interpretive law (fiqh). This analytical separation between the Basic Code and fiqh is necessary to dissipate confusion around the term sharia." ^ "The Second Era of Ijtihad". 1 St. Thomas University Law Review. 341. Fiqh: Fiqh (Arabic: فقه‎ [fiqh]) is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the code of conduct (Sharia) expounded in the Quran, often supplemented by tradition (Sunnah) and implemented by the rulings and interpretations of Islamic jurists. http://en.wikipedia.org... What applies within one school of Sharia law does not necessarily apply in the other schools. For example, the Maliki Law School accepts evidence of pregnancy as proof that an unmarried woman has either committed adultery or been raped. The other schools "... do not recognize evidence of pregnancy as proof of Zina [Adultery]." http://www.religioustolerance.org... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The basic point is that we need to restrict ourselves to the basic immutable code as laid down in the Koran and Sunnah. That being said, I will now proceed to analyze your argument. If you notice, the examples given by me did not fall into any of the categories of unlawful “knowledge”. I do not see how Sharia forbids all forms of science. The Banu Musa also worked in astronomical observations established in Baghdad by the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun. The Abbasid Caliphate or, more simply, the Abbasids (Arabic: العبّاسيّون‎ / ISO 233: al-‘abbāsīyūn), was the third of the Islamic caliphates. The term caliphate "dominion of a caliph ('successor')" (from the Arabic خلافة or khilāfa, Turkish: Halife), refers to the first system of government established in Islam and represented the political unity of the Muslim Ummah (community). http://en.wikipedia.org... The banu musa brothers worked in astronomical observations established by an Islamic system of government, is it not reasonable to assume that they would have to work within the framework established by the third Islamic caliphate (around 200 years after the death of the prophet)? If not, I await you to prove otherwise. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My opponent needs to point out the exact violation of each of the examples provided by me (you can start with the double concentric siphon and agriculture, if you prove that, we can move onto translation). Kindly post in a format like this: Double concentric siphon- <insert violated principle here> - <insert relevant text from Koran> -<insert source here>