1001 Muslim inventions that changed the world

Last month I was fortunate to see in the Science Museum in London the exhibition "1001 Muslim Inventions:"

http://www.1001inventions.com/

You can watch an interesting film starring Ben Kingsley and other British actors to demonstrate more colorfully some of Islamic scholars' more important breakthroughs:

http://www.1001inventions.com/themovie

As the film points out, the era we call The Dark Ages was confined to Europe, while it was a Golden Age for the Islamic world. Many of the advances in medicine, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, and architecture that we rely on today came from this period.